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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7632326" data-attributes="member: 29398"><p>Agreed so far.</p><p></p><p>Oddly enough, it's not the GM's notes that are put in jeopardy here: it's the player's notes. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Why, you ask? Because one expects that a player is going to have some sort of basic idea about what makes a character tick, and will maybe even have some notes to that effect e.g.:</p><p></p><p><em>Chastain rose to knighthood from the common ranks, and though he tries to be noble he cannot forget his roots. As a means of separating himself from the free-swinging peasant society in which he was raised, he has sworn to remain chaste and pure until marriage, to only ever marry once, and to not entertain the thought at all until he has either completed a significant quest or won a significant tournament at the lists and thus proven himself worthy of the love of a lady of noble standing.</em></p><p></p><p>And then the maiden winks at him...and those notes suddenly might not mean as much as they did a moment ago.</p><p></p><p>The GM's notes (or lack thereof) don't much matter here - whether she's prepped the quest or not, this sort of thing can happen in any game; and it's just part of a GM's job to be able to hit curveballs like this when they arise. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7632326, member: 29398"] Agreed so far. Oddly enough, it's not the GM's notes that are put in jeopardy here: it's the player's notes. :) Why, you ask? Because one expects that a player is going to have some sort of basic idea about what makes a character tick, and will maybe even have some notes to that effect e.g.: [I]Chastain rose to knighthood from the common ranks, and though he tries to be noble he cannot forget his roots. As a means of separating himself from the free-swinging peasant society in which he was raised, he has sworn to remain chaste and pure until marriage, to only ever marry once, and to not entertain the thought at all until he has either completed a significant quest or won a significant tournament at the lists and thus proven himself worthy of the love of a lady of noble standing.[/I] And then the maiden winks at him...and those notes suddenly might not mean as much as they did a moment ago. The GM's notes (or lack thereof) don't much matter here - whether she's prepped the quest or not, this sort of thing can happen in any game; and it's just part of a GM's job to be able to hit curveballs like this when they arise. :) [/QUOTE]
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