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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 9469749" data-attributes="member: 6779310">EditingAn example of editing in an RPG: Playing a game with shared GMing. One player's adventure was so off theme and was so disruptive to future play that at the next session we voted to have it all have been a shared nightmare. We took a vote, 7:1 for decanonizing that adventure.Another case: new system, 1st session. TPK due to a misinterpreted rule, realized while starting resulting CGen...  instead just reset by group concensus.Yet another: due to rules error, group decides to refund the costs of medical care, including downtime, from a really bad rules read.Retcons are edits.Likewise, a number of games allow for use of metacurrency to say, "Oh, yeah, I have one of those"... including FFG's Star WarsAs for "providing" one's character to the GM:this varies by group. In the old days, the rulebook advice was to not allow characters from other campaigns; this had the effect of locking characters to one campaign, and usually just one GM.There was little ability to GM A to enforce ownership of PC C in GM B's game; it was always B's choice. But usually, Each campaign's version was separate from introduction.As for ownership, it varies. In some groups (and I warn players in mine these days), one installed into the campaign, even if the player quits, the character remains a part of the campaign. In some, if the player quits, the character leaves; others they die.  I've done all those modes as a gm. I've often let the player pick.  Also, as a GM, if the system uses some form of advancement points I give half-base for prior-notice absences for good reason (Work, family obligations, school)... to about 3 in a row. (at 4, you're out of the campaign.) During an absence, many of my players have a specific player they want to play their character... and usually, I allow it. A few times, it's been just easier to leave them "on the ship" or "Guarding the Mounts" in the interests of play speed.As a player, I don't want my character played permanently by another player... but if I have to miss due to outside reasons, I don't mind a drop in player playing them that session, nor do I mind them being an NPC that session.Bottom line? At least in the groups I've been in, GM or player, PC ownership is kind of a shared thing between player and GM.</blockquote>

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