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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9531765" data-attributes="member: 93670">You don't need to look any further than this thread or for examples of how it's done★.  Player simply does it while throwing around statements like "well MyChArEcTeR is..."and complains that the GM is being too inflexible.  I've even seen exchanges like this one I had very early on in 5e<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I want my criminal contacts to be $forgottenFRfaction(let's say Harper's).  Is that ok?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Your level 1 & the premise of the campaign was that you are all cyran refugees who lost everything° from a refugee camp who got a great offer from a small village in  western droaam near the byshek mountains.  I don't really care what it's called, but you probably won't really know much more than a minor street gang or something.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Well they are pretty big</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Maybe to you, but I wouldn't expect much recognition way out there. You really want to focus on building ties with the dragonmarked houses, that's going to be a big part of the campaign</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Many sessions later after ignoring both dragonmarked houses and never trying to interact with the maybeHarpers,  player wants to reach out to and name-drop the minor street gang called maybeHarpers that has never once come up then starts a debate over how that's not reasonable for the NPC to have never heard of them and seem to be telling the truth with a 20+ insight check with other players jumping in to agree with how big the Harper's are while totally ignoring the fact that the campaign has never been in FR & the PCs have no reason to have ever heard of it.</li> </ul>"The rules" never need to come up when invoking roleplay vrs rollplay to defend background features°i do mean everything, not even the normal starting gear.  They had some gear given to them based on their class that was described as stuff they managed to find/earn/claim since the war but it was pretty sparse and they got a good bit more over the first several seasons on their way west to droaamedit: ★ or the post iommediately above this one.</blockquote>

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