Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Imaculata" data-source="post: 7742515" data-attributes="member: 6801286">I usually avoid using well known characters from popular settings in my RPG sessions. There's a huge risk that either the game rules or the person in control of those characters will not do them justice. So if I ever ran a LOTR campaign, there would be no Gandalf, Legolas or Aragorn. There would be the player characters instead.This is one of the things that has kept me from running a Jurassic Park campaign. Most of my players are familiar with the movies, and few of them are familiar with the books. But this tends to set certain expectations regarding well known characters and events. As a DM I find it important to have the freedom to change things on the fly. The entire campaign should not be derailed because someone decides to kill Alan Grant. Nor would I want to run the risk of having one of the players play the part of Alan Grant, and doing a bad job at it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Imaculata, post: 7742515, member: 6801286"] I usually avoid using well known characters from popular settings in my RPG sessions. There's a huge risk that either the game rules or the person in control of those characters will not do them justice. So if I ever ran a LOTR campaign, there would be no Gandalf, Legolas or Aragorn. There would be the player characters instead. This is one of the things that has kept me from running a Jurassic Park campaign. Most of my players are familiar with the movies, and few of them are familiar with the books. But this tends to set certain expectations regarding well known characters and events. As a DM I find it important to have the freedom to change things on the fly. The entire campaign should not be derailed because someone decides to kill Alan Grant. Nor would I want to run the risk of having one of the players play the part of Alan Grant, and doing a bad job at it. [/QUOTE]

Verification