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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Numidius" data-source="post: 7595027" data-attributes="member: 6972053">"P&P" part IV Player driven story arc While the Gm driven part applies mostly to new content, plot twists, big changes, about Setting, presumably something important or immediately related to the Pcs being at stake, usually larger than  Characters, which, in turn, use also their Background Relationships & Affiliations to subvert Gm's initial declarations and force him/her to roll on Conflicts having smaller Goals within Pc's reach in different arenas of play (town, wilderness etc)........in Players driven stuff the opposite takes place: Players now declare something the Pc wants to achieve, that is at stake, and Pcs  roll their Stats to overcome obstacles, opposing Npcs, factions, put by Gm on their way to reach the main goal; be it a single conflict, or more, one after another, or simultaneously confronted by different Pcs. The Gm can use imagination freely, improvising or following his prep, to describe a non-linear scenario (think about a town based situation with many prominent personalities involved, with different agendas, or a savage land with various monstrous factions, or a typical dungeon enshrining a powerful magic item guarded by an ancient evil while a group of zealot good paladins swore to not let anyone lay their hands on it,  and how these react to the Pcs pursuing their goals: friendly, hostile, better if interested in the same goal for themselves). Flow of play: Player(s) declare something or someone or somewhere, they want to achieve, get hold of, influence in a radical manner, reach with a purpose. Players might want to go together, or even interfere with one another. Conversation goes around the table as usual. When Gm or Player, or even PvP, don't agree anymore on what is being declared: Conflict ensues. The active Player decides in which manner prefers to act; usually is evident which stat is going to be rolled, but, anyway, if one wants to overcome an Npc with violence, and death is a possible and accepted outcome: Combat is the stat. If s/he wants to change the 'active behaviour' of the Npc by words, or non-violent physical means, magic, convincing, persuading, showing off, impressing: Social is the stat. If, lastly, one does not want to interact directly with the above Npc, and finds a way to bypass, circumvent, the obstacle interacting with the environment, willing to spend more game-time than a direct confrontation: the stat is Exploration. Exploration is also used if you want to take time to change, transform, survive the environment, from crossing a desert to building a fortification, to picking a magic lock, gaining info, research, hunt, scale sheer surfaces, infiltrate unseen, swim underwater tunnels, find your way out of a maze etc. (To be continued...)</blockquote>

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