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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 7610064" data-attributes="member: 177">Beware short definitions.  They tend to miss meeting.  There is a connotation to "status quo" beyond that - the status quo is the existing state of affairs and that has been the state for some significant time.  The status quo is the current state that is relatively stable or static, and has not been changing much.  You do not refer to the status quo of a highly dynamic situation in which the current state is new, and highly likely to change soon.For our purposes, a status quo setting is one in which the various powers have found some sort of balance, and settled into it - if the PCs do not act, there will be no significant change to that situation.  This is in contrast to a setting with a metaplot, where the setting is going somewhere specific unless the PCs act to stop it.</blockquote>