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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7762675" data-attributes="member: 42582">By "running" do you mean "pitching"? Or "planning to run"? Or that the campaign is already underway and someone wants to join in?I'll leave the last one alone, as it raises some extra questions about fitting new fiction with established fiction. But as far as the first two are concerned, I think that Luke Crane's advice in Burning Wheel (Gold edition, p 82) is pretty good:If the GM proposes a game without magic, there's always that one player who's got to play the last mage. And you know what? That's good. Before the game has even started, we have a spark of conflict - we have the player getting involved in shaping the situation. Discuss the situation as you present your character concept. Tie them both together - a dying world without magic, the last mage, the quest to restore the land. In one volley of discussion you've got an epic in the making. Start mixing in the other character concepts - they should all be toed to the background - and you have the makings of a Burning Wheel game. The cult priestess sworn to aid the last mage . . . and then spill his blood so that the world can be reborn; the Lord High Inquisitor whose duty it is to hunt the Gifted, but whose own brother is the last hope. Now we're talking. I see assertions of sole-GM-authority-over-setting as a common manifestation of a broader idea of sole-GM-authority-over-the-fiction. I think that tends to undermine rather than foster what is fun and distinctive about RPGing.Sure, but you didn't ask Do you really think the GM will allow a player to make a pc that isn't human? You asked Do you really think the GM is obligated to allow a player to make a pc that isn't human? You asked a question about what's best or what's appropriate, not for a prediction of what is likely or going to happen.As I said, I think that sole GM authority over fiction pushes against what is fun and distinctive about RPGing, which is the collective generation of a shared fiction.</blockquote>

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