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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8245541" data-attributes="member: 42582">I think that when the game is in these &quot;exploration&quot; phases - when the GM is telling the players about the setting their PCs are experiencing - the GM and players are doing very different things, and its rather asymmetrical. I don't see the GM as learning anything (except in the case where s/he is reading the module as s/he goes along!).Classic Traveller Book 3 (1977 ed, p 8) has this to say about making sense of world profiles (like the one I had generated for the gas giant moon):At times, the referee (or the players) will find combinations of features which may seem contradictory or unreasonable. Common sense should rule in such cases; either the players or referee will generate a rationale which explains the situation, or an alternative description should be made.So when I look at the situation I have - no atmosphere, but quite a few people, with the orbital features I described, and established as having been of interest to the aliens 2 billion years ago, and it having been established that the aliens had a mineral which may well have come from the moon - I have to make something up. Generate something, in the words of the book. What I described in my earlier post is what I came up with!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 8245541, member: 42582"] I think that when the game is in these "exploration" phases - when the GM is telling the players about the setting their PCs are experiencing - the GM and players are doing very different things, and its rather asymmetrical. I don't see the GM as learning anything (except in the case where s/he is reading the module as s/he goes along!). Classic Traveller Book 3 (1977 ed, p 8) has this to say about making sense of world profiles (like the one I had generated for the gas giant moon): [INDENT]At times, the referee (or the players) will find combinations of features which may seem contradictory or unreasonable. Common sense should rule in such cases; either the players or referee will generate a rationale which explains the situation, or an alternative description should be made.[/INDENT] So when I look at the situation I have - no atmosphere, but quite a few people, with the orbital features I described, and established as having been of interest to the aliens 2 billion years ago, and it having been established that the aliens had a mineral which may well have come from the moon - I have to make something up. [I]Generate[/I] something, in the words of the book. What I described in my earlier post is what I came up with! [/QUOTE]

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