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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 9653648" data-attributes="member: 6785785">Please stop telling me what I like and dislike. I have told you repeatedly that I sometimes play games very much like the ones you're talking about.It's not about liking or disliking. It's about recognizing what is happening at the table, and what the design choices allow to happen at the table.You're focusing on the wrong thing. No one is saying that the GM can't or shouldn't give his NPCs strong traits. What we're saying is that those traits impact how the play of the game can function and so must be considered.In and of itself, it's not really a problem to make a guard totally loyal to their liege. Indeed, such people are likely to exist. However, the way that this is presented in play, how it impacts the interactions of the players with this NPC, how it interacts with other setting elements, and most importantly how it interacts with other decisions that the GM has made... all of that matters.It's my contention that the GM should be very aware of these things.I don't think that the GM considering the play implications of NPCs he designs to be all that restrictive on his creativity. And it's not about being a jerk. Might someone willfully block players? Yes, of course... that person's a poor GM or is GMing poorly in that moment, at least. I'm more concerned with those who create these situations without realizing it. And given the lack of understanding about this topic in this thread, I think that's a relevant concern. Now, again... if what you're talking about is what you prefer, then that's perfectly fine. But from my view, it's placing the GM's freedom above that of the players, and the setting above the game. Yes, and to what purpose? Someone recently asked me, is the setting there to serve the game, or is the game there to serve the setting? That seems valid here. Sure, I get that you fail to see it. But do you think people who are saying that they enjoy such games are lying to you? Or are they just wrong about what they enjoy?Maybe consider what they're saying and accept that it's true for them, and then maybe try to imagine why it would be so. If you can't, then sure, stop worrying about it and ask again in the next thread.</blockquote>

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