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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Balesir" data-source="post: 6167217" data-attributes="member: 27160">Yeah, but it's not the choosing to put one or two (or even three) points in - it's choosing to put points in an Icon at all. You have three points: there are twelve Icons. There will be at least nine that you don't put points into at all. The selection of which you do put points into is thus a positive decision.The chance of the Icons chosen by the players being a factor in a scenario is one in three per point invested, with three points invested per player (at level 1). With four players, the chance that none of their Icon relationships will figure in any given scenario is slightly under 0.8%. If the GM has a preset, inviolable plan that isn't going to include focus on any but his or her chosen Icons, this simply isn't gonna work. What the players choose as "their Icons" simply will crop up as "factors". Thus their choices affect the theme and focus of play. They don't determine the theme or focus - but that's not neccessary or even desirable, any more than the GM determining these things alone is desirable or required. They just have a set, mechanical influence that is stochastically applied (by rolling dice).</blockquote>