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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Shaman" data-source="post: 5215123" data-attributes="member: 26473">I think of it as a form of mythos-building outside of the role of the players in many (though by no means all) roleplaying games or play-styles.I place a high value on the exploration aspect of roleplaying games, so my strong preference, as a both a player and a referee, is to let the setting unfold and change in play, with little to no player-editing before the game starts. Flashing Blades, frex, allows characters to take advantages like Contact, Secret Loyalty, and so forth, which gives the player an opportunity to create a resource in the game-world. I'm fine with that, particularly as the nature of the created resource is carefully bounded by the game-rules, which is part of expectations-setting, and the Advantages in the game are genre-appropriate and available to all players evenly.So, "authorization?" Hmmm. To the extent that it's appropriate to the genre (no ninjas in 17th century France, thanks) and available in more-or-less equal-measure to all the players (rules-bounded), then . . . maybe?Maybe from the twenty-thousand-foot level, but not everyone places a strong emphasis on story in play, only as an artifact resulting from play, so the process and methods bear little resemblance to one another.As I said, I'm thinking of fanfic in terms of mythos-building (and i stayed away from fanwank this time, as it's just too pejorative as a term of art), so it's fanfic with a specific purpose of expanding the game-world.Our difference is that I prefer to confine that level of editing to the more active collaboration environment of actually playing the game.I want the players to fold, spindle, and mutilate the setting, to make origami animals or paper dolls of it; my preference, however, is that it happens as a group, in actual play, not on one player's character sheet before the game starts.No worries.We often disagree, but I always enjoy reading your line of reasoning, and I'm more than happy to explain mine, as best I can.Well, I hope I've cleared that up a bit.</blockquote>

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