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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7322740" data-attributes="member: 42582"><p>The player could write all this - in my BW game, the player of the mage PC established that he "came of age" living in a hilltop tower with his older brother (the player emailed a picture of a ruined Indian castle/tower as the model he was working with - in game terms, I suggested it would be in the Abor-Alz) when they were attacked by orcs. It was in trying to call down a mighty storm of lightning that his brother was instead possessed by a demon. The PC mage had to flee, and had spent the next 14 years as a wandering rogue wizard.</p><p></p><p>Or the group could work it out together (that's how my Cortex+ Heroic game started). Or everyone might read a loose pre0fab setting description and then go from there - that's how my main 4e game started, and it's been the players of particular PCs as much as me who have elaborated on what the Raven Queen is all about, what the empire of Nerath was about, what is at stake in the conflict between gods and primordials, etc.</p><p></p><p>Well, I've given some examples of how else it can work. Of course they're not available if you allocate functions in the way you describe - but one way of thinking about the question in the OP is, <em>why allocate functions that way</em>? I'm interested in answers to that question.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 7322740, member: 42582"] The player could write all this - in my BW game, the player of the mage PC established that he "came of age" living in a hilltop tower with his older brother (the player emailed a picture of a ruined Indian castle/tower as the model he was working with - in game terms, I suggested it would be in the Abor-Alz) when they were attacked by orcs. It was in trying to call down a mighty storm of lightning that his brother was instead possessed by a demon. The PC mage had to flee, and had spent the next 14 years as a wandering rogue wizard. Or the group could work it out together (that's how my Cortex+ Heroic game started). Or everyone might read a loose pre0fab setting description and then go from there - that's how my main 4e game started, and it's been the players of particular PCs as much as me who have elaborated on what the Raven Queen is all about, what the empire of Nerath was about, what is at stake in the conflict between gods and primordials, etc. Well, I've given some examples of how else it can work. Of course they're not available if you allocate functions in the way you describe - but one way of thinking about the question in the OP is, [I]why allocate functions that way[/I]? I'm interested in answers to that question. [/QUOTE]
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