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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7055799" data-attributes="member: 42582">Thanks - very generous! But it's actually the player of that PC who deserves the credit - as we picked up the game from where we left off last time (decapited mage in the bedroom, the bystanders standing slackjawed in horror), another player (of the decapited mage's brother) and I started discussing what his PC (Jobe) was going to do now that his brother couldn't be rescued, prospects for cooperation with the assassin (Jobe and the assassin PC-turned-NPC were comrades for a couple of years in-game, but have been more-and-more at odds over the past two or three months), etc - and then the player of Tru-leigh pipes up "There must be a lot of blood. Is there a jug, or a chamber pot, or something like that?" I looked at him quizically, and he went on "Well, if I can't take the mage with blood in him, I can take the blood!" - and just like that he'd reoriented his mission for his master into the new ingame context. So we wrote the new Belief down in the appropriate box on the PC sheet, I set the DC for the check, and off we went!To say something less controversial than some of my other posts on this thread, I think invested players who will pick up the fiction and run with it are at the heart of the RPG experience.(And to sink back into the mires of controversy - that's why I, personally, don't adopt GMing approaches that seem to me to get in the way of that.)</blockquote>