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<blockquote data-quote="Nifft" data-source="post: 4852957" data-attributes="member: 6562">&quot;They're just pining for the fjords!&quot;&nbsp;Agreed. And honestly, the whole FR quest-dynamic has changed so much, from uber-NPCs asking PCs to do errand quests (in 3.x) into a grim PoL &quot;you're on your own&quot; kinda thing, that transitioning plots would be really tough even if PCs were expected to have survived.&nbsp;We once played some Star Wars RPG games, and my group's flavor lawyers (aka &quot;canon lawyers&quot;, &quot;fan•atics&quot;, &quot;guys who can actually translate Shryyyyyyyywook&quot;, etc.) detracted from the experience. It's not that they were jerks about it or anything, but I could see them mentally gnashing their teeth whenever the GM flubbed up some point of Star Wars lore, or got creative in a manner that (unknowingly) contradicted the aforestated lore. It reduced their fun, and I think that served to inhibit the GM.Just as System Mastery has come under criticism for rewarding a minority of players, IMHO we saw previous editions of FR reward a minority of DMs who could achieve Setting Mastery. It's nice to see both forms of SM scaled back.Cheers, -- N</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nifft, post: 4852957, member: 6562"] "They're just pining for the fjords!" Agreed. And honestly, the whole FR quest-dynamic has changed so much, from uber-NPCs asking PCs to do errand quests (in 3.x) into a grim PoL "you're on your own" kinda thing, that transitioning plots would be really tough even if PCs were expected to have survived. We once played some Star Wars RPG games, and my group's flavor lawyers (aka "canon lawyers", "fan•atics", "guys who can actually translate Shryyyyyyyywook", etc.) detracted from the experience. It's not that they were jerks about it or anything, but I could see them mentally gnashing their teeth whenever the GM flubbed up some point of Star Wars lore, or got creative in a manner that (unknowingly) contradicted the aforestated lore. It reduced their fun, and I think that served to inhibit the GM. Just as System Mastery has come under criticism for rewarding a minority of players, IMHO we saw previous editions of FR reward a minority of DMs who could achieve Setting Mastery. It's nice to see both forms of SM scaled back. Cheers, -- N [/QUOTE]

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