Hussar
Legend
On the Enterprise.
I was a bit curious about this, so, I did a bit of Wikipedia diving. Of the first three seasons of Next Generation, there are 74 episodes. Of those 74 episodes, 14 actually feature the Enterprise as anything other than just a background set - either the ship is threatened directly, taken over by aliens, or is somehow central to the plot of the episode. So, 14 out of 74 stories would be affected by Backgrounding the Enterprise. That means that 80% of the stories could be told.
A bit high, perhaps, but, really, considering that it's still a pretty small minority of stories, is that really all that unreasonable of the player? The DM still has 80% of the stories to work with. It's not like the DM suddenly cannot run the game. And the changes that I actually proposed - backgrounding a motorcycle, a single PC's Patron, a single PC's pet, are not going to impact a campaign to anywhere near that degree.
[MENTION=6919838]5ekyu[/MENTION] seems to be arguing that any limitation on the DM is too much, but, do people really feel that's true? That a DM needs to not have any limitations placed upon the campaign by the players when at least one of the players would actively not enjoy that other 20%? How is this unreasonable?
I was a bit curious about this, so, I did a bit of Wikipedia diving. Of the first three seasons of Next Generation, there are 74 episodes. Of those 74 episodes, 14 actually feature the Enterprise as anything other than just a background set - either the ship is threatened directly, taken over by aliens, or is somehow central to the plot of the episode. So, 14 out of 74 stories would be affected by Backgrounding the Enterprise. That means that 80% of the stories could be told.
A bit high, perhaps, but, really, considering that it's still a pretty small minority of stories, is that really all that unreasonable of the player? The DM still has 80% of the stories to work with. It's not like the DM suddenly cannot run the game. And the changes that I actually proposed - backgrounding a motorcycle, a single PC's Patron, a single PC's pet, are not going to impact a campaign to anywhere near that degree.
[MENTION=6919838]5ekyu[/MENTION] seems to be arguing that any limitation on the DM is too much, but, do people really feel that's true? That a DM needs to not have any limitations placed upon the campaign by the players when at least one of the players would actively not enjoy that other 20%? How is this unreasonable?