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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7643513" data-attributes="member: 42582">Although even in the most famous of group adventure fantasy novels - LotR - the fellowship was sundered.I think this is another place where attending to the difference between fiction and real world helps analysis. As you say, in the real world we want an engaged play group having a good time being engaged by the play of the game and the fiction it is creating. Whether in the fiction this has to take the form of a party, or can be the result of storlines that interweave in other ways, is a further question.Neither 4e D&D nor Classic Traveller (to pick two games I'm pretty famiiar with) supports the second approach (one of many reasons why, contrary to the hype of its designers, Traveller can't do Star Wars). Burning Wheel, though, makes the "interweave" approach more feasible, and MHRP/Cortex+ even more feasible - in my expereince at least not so much because of genre but because of mechanics. They have systems which allow choices made by one player in the play of his/her PC to transmit, mechnically, to the situation of the other PCs without this requiring the PCs to be in fictional, collaborative proximity.I see this as another place where knowing what a system can or can't do, and then approaching it in that light - or, perhaps, discoveirng in play what it can do and then following those implicit leads - makes more sense than trying to force one particular set of expectations onto any given system without regard to these sorts of differences.</blockquote>

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