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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8712643" data-attributes="member: 93670">[spoiler="Author:"]Author comes from the Latin word auctorem, meaning "founder, master, leader." Bow down to the author! Well, no need for that, just make sure the author gets credit. Author usually refers to a professional writer. In fact, author can be used interchangeably with the word writer. But author packs a little more punch — an author is involved in the creation of the work and generating the ideas behind it; strictly speaking, a writer could just execute the written product. Middle English (in the sense ‘a person who invents or causes something’): from Old French autor, from Latin auctor, from augere ‘increase, originate, promote’. The spelling with th arose in the 15th century, and perhaps became established under the influence of authentic[/spoiler]You seem to be using a very unique definition of "authoring" in order to apply it to a team game like d&d...I literally had to tell a player that my game was not source material for  or subject to their self insert writings & ban them from creating a characte rthat was intended for that  because she was incredibly disruptive playing a character who existed in hammerspace most of the table time but expected to conform to things written in isolation away from the table. Despite that hard line in session zero & before the player recently declared "bob wants to serve his patron and do what they want/ask of him, so she can gain more power to be able to protect his family and her current group. But also, he wants to honor her blue dragon progenitor/his village by sharing his knowledge and helping people that need it. Its all about gaining more power and being stronger so he can use that for good." but didn't lift a finger or even speak up when the group was busy murderhoboing themselves away from the prepared adventures till they were finally banished & literally no part of that story has been reflected in any of the player's actions at the table.   I can't throw plot hooks at them because they are ignored if they don't perfectly align with a story written sometime when we aren't actually at the table playing d&d.  "Authored story" is what you get from a solo activity like writing a story not playing a team game with other players under a GM who is responsible for all of their players rather than the Author at the table. Although I can't find the quote (suspect it was a podcast) Jim butcher once got asked if he plays dresden files rpg being the author of the dresden files books. His response was to explain how he would be the worst nightmare of a player since anything the GM says is different than he wants it to be when something is happening would be exactly what he says & that he could make it that later if he felt it was important.  That's why d&d is not a place for someone authoring a story about their character.</blockquote>

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