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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7062403" data-attributes="member: 42582">On the issue of GM contribution: as a GM, I get to introduce most of the detailed story elements. Jabal of the Cabal became an NPC in my BW game because the PC mage tried to reach out to him (mechanically, via a Circles check) - but I'm the one who got to decide that he lives in a tower, that he has a (now former) manservant called Athog, that he has a rag-and-bone familar, and that he is engaged to marry the Gynarch of Hardby.The same player made Joachim the balrog-possessed mage a key figure in the game. I'm the one who decided that Joachim's father is St Bernard the Holy, one of the most revered abbots of the land (who, 50+ years ago, left the Furyondyian court for a posting in Greyhawk about the time Joachim was born).What is key for me is that the elements that I introduce into the shared fiction are by way of framing and joining some of the dots that emerge from resolution. They aren't particularly the engine of the campaign.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 7062403, member: 42582"] On the issue of GM contribution: as a GM, I get to introduce most of the detailed story elements. Jabal of the Cabal became an NPC in my BW game because the PC mage tried to reach out to him (mechanically, via a Circles check) - but I'm the one who got to decide that he lives in a tower, that he has a (now former) manservant called Athog, that he has a rag-and-bone familar, and that he is engaged to marry the Gynarch of Hardby. The same player made Joachim the balrog-possessed mage a key figure in the game. I'm the one who decided that Joachim's father is St Bernard the Holy, one of the most revered abbots of the land (who, 50+ years ago, left the Furyondyian court for a posting in Greyhawk about the time Joachim was born). What is key for me is that the elements that I introduce into the shared fiction are by way of framing and joining some of the dots that emerge from resolution. They aren't particularly the engine of the campaign. [/QUOTE]

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