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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8156734" data-attributes="member: 42582">If the constraint flows from choices made by others, then actually it does.Acceptable to whom? To you, apparently yes. In fact - from your posts - you seem to think this is the best approach to RPGing.Personally I tend to find it makes for a poor RPGing experience. There are exceptions to that - I've mentioned CoC oneshots upthread; and the murder mystery that I refereed recently.But generally I prefer that framing be done having regard to player input or evinced player concerns. The details of that depend on the particular system and techniques being used. In a system like Burning Wheel the framing should be tightly connected to PC Beliefs, Instincts and Traits. In Prince Valiant the initial framing is more likely to have a fairly generic knight-errant flavour, but which enables the players to quickly push things in directions that reflect and express their concerns for their PCs.I have seen it advocated on these boards (eg by [USER=29398]@Lanefan[/USER] but not only him) that a GM should prepare adventure/scenario material without regard to which PCs it is for. That would be an example of unilateral framing. That is an approach to GMing that I have not used since about 1984.</blockquote>