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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 4829823" data-attributes="member: 177">As a player who enjoys the fiction of a line,... what are your expectations from the GM? A strong familiarity with the setting.&nbsp; I don't expect a GM's knowledge to be encyclopedic.&nbsp; In the case of D&amp;D settings where the setting came before the fiction, I don't expect the GM to take the fiction as canon, unless the GM is focusing specifically on the period and location of one work of fiction.&nbsp; As a player, have you ever left a game because the GM wasn't being 'true' to the line?No.As a player, how much do you think your character knows about the setting?What a person in his or her position would know.&nbsp; If I'm playing a first level fighter, I'd expect... say, a junior high school understanding of the history and such.&nbsp; I expect the GM to tell me what I should know - that's what various knowledge-type skills are for.As a player, have you ever 'forced' out another player?No.As a GM, how... constrained do you feel by the fiction line?As a GM, I avoid working in areas specified by fiction.As a GM, have you ever stopped running a game because a player ruined it for you?No.As a GM have you had to ask a player to leave because they were ruining the enjoyment of other players?Yes.&nbsp; But it had nothing to do with &quot;setting canon lawyering&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 4829823, member: 177"] [B]As a player who enjoys the fiction of a line,... what are your expectations from the GM? [/B] A strong familiarity with the setting. I don't expect a GM's knowledge to be encyclopedic. In the case of D&D settings where the setting came before the fiction, I don't expect the GM to take the fiction as canon, unless the GM is focusing specifically on the period and location of one work of fiction. [B]As a player, have you ever left a game because the GM wasn't being 'true' to the line?[/B] No. [B]As a player, how much do you think your character knows about the setting?[/B] What a person in his or her position would know. If I'm playing a first level fighter, I'd expect... say, a junior high school understanding of the history and such. I expect the GM to tell me what I should know - that's what various knowledge-type skills are for. [B]As a player, have you ever 'forced' out another player?[/B] No. [B]As a GM, how... constrained do you feel by the fiction line?[/B] As a GM, I avoid working in areas specified by fiction. [B] As a GM, have you ever stopped running a game because a player ruined it for you?[/B] No. [B]As a GM have you had to ask a player to leave because they were ruining the enjoyment of other players?[/B] Yes. But it had nothing to do with "setting canon lawyering". [/QUOTE]

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