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<blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 7494974" data-attributes="member: 6785785"><p>Sure, I get people being into a setting, but what surprises me in these discussions is how often a player will let his enjoyment of a setting interfere with enjoyment of a game. Especially considering that one should serve the other. No one sits down to play a setting.</p><p></p><p>Plus you’d think the very nature of the beast would require a willingness for departure from source material. If all we’re doing is following along the path established by the fiction...so instead of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, it’s the PCs who have to infiltrate the Death Star and then later attack it....then what’s the point of playing? </p><p></p><p>And for the people who don’t like or care about setting, I agree.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I think maybe I don’t make as strong a delineation between setting and metaplot. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>5E seems to have almost no metaplot. Unless you view the published adventures as such. Several of them do have astory to them, but I don’t think that any one must be acknowledged across the board. References are made to other books, but I feel like those are more Easter Eggish than anything.</p><p></p><p>As for the setting presented in 5E, it seems largely a “take this and make it your own approach”.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I have less of a problem with most of this than the bit you previously posted. I mean, to take a real world example that has been a setting for games in which I’ve played...WWII. The beginning to the end is established. However that doesn’t mean thata GM and play group can’t use WWII as the setting for their story. </p><p></p><p>I think what Edwards seems to be criticizing is when PCs seeve as stand ins for characters who were the protagonists of the original “story”. I wouldn’t disagree with that at all...I don’t want to just play a stand in for Luke Skywalker or Aragorn or Sturm Brightblade. I’d much rather play my own character in his own story. </p><p></p><p>I don’t think setting has to be as big a factor in this regard as he seems to imply.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hawkeyefan, post: 7494974, member: 6785785"] Sure, I get people being into a setting, but what surprises me in these discussions is how often a player will let his enjoyment of a setting interfere with enjoyment of a game. Especially considering that one should serve the other. No one sits down to play a setting. Plus you’d think the very nature of the beast would require a willingness for departure from source material. If all we’re doing is following along the path established by the fiction...so instead of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, it’s the PCs who have to infiltrate the Death Star and then later attack it....then what’s the point of playing? And for the people who don’t like or care about setting, I agree. I think maybe I don’t make as strong a delineation between setting and metaplot. 5E seems to have almost no metaplot. Unless you view the published adventures as such. Several of them do have astory to them, but I don’t think that any one must be acknowledged across the board. References are made to other books, but I feel like those are more Easter Eggish than anything. As for the setting presented in 5E, it seems largely a “take this and make it your own approach”. I have less of a problem with most of this than the bit you previously posted. I mean, to take a real world example that has been a setting for games in which I’ve played...WWII. The beginning to the end is established. However that doesn’t mean thata GM and play group can’t use WWII as the setting for their story. I think what Edwards seems to be criticizing is when PCs seeve as stand ins for characters who were the protagonists of the original “story”. I wouldn’t disagree with that at all...I don’t want to just play a stand in for Luke Skywalker or Aragorn or Sturm Brightblade. I’d much rather play my own character in his own story. I don’t think setting has to be as big a factor in this regard as he seems to imply. [/QUOTE]
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