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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8671979" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>I think this still smacks a bit more of 'playing in the GM's story' than I actually like... I'm wanting to have things such that I would need to accomplish something. As a player I might essentially bring in this concept of a sheriff that will suite my purposes, or maybe the GM might introduce such as part of scene framing. HoML might allow for, say, doing free RP up to the point where you engage this guy as an element in a challenge you are attempting, and at that point he becomes a part of the scene that starts the challenge. So, you could technically meet said sheriff simply 'in the course of things', but unless you then focus on "here's a chance to initiate solving a conflict" then said NPC will likely just fade back into the woodwork, for now. Obviously as an established piece of fiction he may well return to relevance later. So you can kind of get a bit of a range of possibilities. OTOH I am not super fond of the PCs just wandering around endlessly gardening fiction without doing anything. In that sort of case I'll take a page from PbtA and 'make a move'.</p></blockquote><p></p>