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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9233876" data-attributes="member: 29398">GM-fiat levelling, maybe?Big difference, still.GM-side: the difference is one of doing what you want to do (GM fiat) vs doing what you're told to do (milestone).Player-side: the difference is one of freedom as to what the characters do.&nbsp; In a milestone setup the players know* they have to get to X-point in the story in order to level up and so they're highy likely to ignore anything that doesn't get them closer to X, while in a GM-fiat setup the players know* they can have their characters do all sorts of not-necessarily-goal-oriented things and they'll still level up.The player-side difference is the more important one here as it not-always-subtly tells the players how they're expected to play in this campaign.* - or will figure out soon enough, once a few levels have gone by, even if they don't know what-where that X-point is.Yes.&nbsp; She's switched on the fly from milestone levelling to GM-fiat levelling; which may or may not sit well with the players if, say, they'd been going off-goal because they liked the way play was going at the current level (or were still getting used to what their characters could do at that level) and she's decided to level them up regardless.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 9233876, member: 29398"] GM-fiat levelling, maybe? Big difference, still. GM-side: the difference is one of doing what you want to do (GM fiat) vs doing what you're told to do (milestone). Player-side: the difference is one of freedom as to what the characters do. In a milestone setup the players know* they have to get to X-point in the story in order to level up and so they're highy likely to ignore anything that doesn't get them closer to X, while in a GM-fiat setup the players know* they can have their characters do all sorts of not-necessarily-goal-oriented things and they'll still level up. The player-side difference is the more important one here as it not-always-subtly tells the players how they're expected to play in this campaign. * - or will figure out soon enough, once a few levels have gone by, even if they don't know what-where that X-point is. Yes. She's switched on the fly from milestone levelling to GM-fiat levelling; which may or may not sit well with the players if, say, they'd been going off-goal because they liked the way play was going at the current level (or were still getting used to what their characters could do at that level) and she's decided to level them up regardless. [/QUOTE]

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