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<blockquote data-quote="Imaro" data-source="post: 7510740" data-attributes="member: 48965"><p>I believe pemerton's general approach to gaming is characterized by the setting not being the DM's but instead the groups... I believe Manbearcat is similar in his tastes and well [MENTION=205]TwoSix[/MENTION] pretty much said it was his preference when he responded... but I wasn't sure since I haven't interacted directly with him as much as the other two posters I listed. I honestly don't know what your general approach is though I will admit you seem very pro-player entitlement and much less enthusiastic about anything that maintains or establishes DM empowerment.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well first let me reply in the same way you did... when you say DM control is 100% whose game are you speaking about here, certainly not mine? Got any specifics you'd like to put on the table? </p><p></p><p>To address the rest speaking hypothetically if I as DM don't want something brought to the forefront of a camapign... why wouldn't I also background it. If I want an African-esque camapign set in an ancient kingdom based on Ghana but I have, because I am a nice DM allowed one of my players who really has a jones for old kung fu movies to play a monk from across the seas... why can't I background the kung-fu stuff to guarantee that player through his actions doesn't force me to run a game I didn't want to in the first place? Mainly one across the sea about wire-fu, monks in temples and martial-arts competitions?</p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Or maybe some people have read and/or used the technique before... or maybe some were lucky enough in their assumptions to have hit what you actually meant on the head (or close enough to it). Maybe some didn't understand it but felt like it wasn't important enough to delvse into and thus dropped out the conversation. What's the point of this speculation again? </p><p></p><p>I think the fact that more than one poster in this thread didn't is enough to assume it wasn't as clear as say the rules you posted...but hey if blame needs to be placed sure throw it on those who didn't understand the entire concept (along with limitations) from your original mention of backgrounding... at this point does it even matter?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Imaro, post: 7510740, member: 48965"] I believe pemerton's general approach to gaming is characterized by the setting not being the DM's but instead the groups... I believe Manbearcat is similar in his tastes and well [MENTION=205]TwoSix[/MENTION] pretty much said it was his preference when he responded... but I wasn't sure since I haven't interacted directly with him as much as the other two posters I listed. I honestly don't know what your general approach is though I will admit you seem very pro-player entitlement and much less enthusiastic about anything that maintains or establishes DM empowerment. Well first let me reply in the same way you did... when you say DM control is 100% whose game are you speaking about here, certainly not mine? Got any specifics you'd like to put on the table? To address the rest speaking hypothetically if I as DM don't want something brought to the forefront of a camapign... why wouldn't I also background it. If I want an African-esque camapign set in an ancient kingdom based on Ghana but I have, because I am a nice DM allowed one of my players who really has a jones for old kung fu movies to play a monk from across the seas... why can't I background the kung-fu stuff to guarantee that player through his actions doesn't force me to run a game I didn't want to in the first place? Mainly one across the sea about wire-fu, monks in temples and martial-arts competitions? Or maybe some people have read and/or used the technique before... or maybe some were lucky enough in their assumptions to have hit what you actually meant on the head (or close enough to it). Maybe some didn't understand it but felt like it wasn't important enough to delvse into and thus dropped out the conversation. What's the point of this speculation again? I think the fact that more than one poster in this thread didn't is enough to assume it wasn't as clear as say the rules you posted...but hey if blame needs to be placed sure throw it on those who didn't understand the entire concept (along with limitations) from your original mention of backgrounding... at this point does it even matter? [/QUOTE]
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