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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7325250" data-attributes="member: 42582">The number of maps has nothing to do with it. This thread asks about the point of GM pre-authored setting. That contrasts with other ways of establishing setting, eg by showing everyone a map at the start of the campaign and saying, &quot;Hey, let's use this.&quot;In practice, there's going to be a limit on how much stuff can be shared. There's also another limit that is relevant if the idea is for setting to emerge through play, rather than be established by someone in advance, namely - you have to leave room for that stuff to emerge!(A loose analgoue of the issue for classic D&amp;D: the traditional use of wandering monsters isn't really compatible with assuming that every being in the dungeon is fully detailed in advance by the GM. Because if the latter was the case, then where are all those wanderers coming from?)It depends on the details. If &quot;Let's play in Mystara&quot; means &quot;Here's this cool map from the back of my Expert book, and we're only going to have elves, dwarves, halflings and humans&quot; then absolutely - that's pitching a tropes for a game.If it means &quot;I've got this pile of gazzeteers and stuff full of backstory that you don't know about, and that I will rely on to adjudicate your action resolution, but without telling you&quot; then that's not just pitching tropes - it's pitching a whole playstyle, of GM preauthored worldbuilding that will be used to determine the outcomes of action resolution in the style [MENTION=6696971]Manbearcat[/MENTION] described a little bit upthread; and in the style that [MENTION=59082]Mercurius[/MENTION] has described as &quot;omnipotent GM&quot;.It was published with a licence from Marvel, not DC. So it contains Marvel characters, not DC ones. DC characers would be easy enought to build for it, though I've not tried as I'm not so much into DC as Marvel. (Eg you'd use Hawkeye as your starting point for Green Arrow; Quasar as your starting point for Green Lantern; etc.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 7325250, member: 42582"] The number of maps has nothing to do with it. This thread asks about the point of GM pre-authored setting. That contrasts with other ways of establishing setting, eg by showing everyone a map at the start of the campaign and saying, "Hey, let's use this." In practice, there's going to be a limit on how much stuff can be shared. There's also another limit that is relevant if the idea is for setting to emerge through play, rather than be established by someone in advance, namely - you have to leave room for that stuff to emerge! (A loose analgoue of the issue for classic D&D: the traditional use of wandering monsters isn't really compatible with assuming that every being in the dungeon is fully detailed in advance by the GM. Because if the latter was the case, then where are all those wanderers coming from?) It depends on the details. If "Let's play in Mystara" means "Here's this cool map from the back of my Expert book, and we're only going to have elves, dwarves, halflings and humans" then absolutely - that's pitching a tropes for a game. If it means "I've got this pile of gazzeteers and stuff full of backstory that you don't know about, and that I will rely on to adjudicate your action resolution, but without telling you" then that's not just pitching tropes - it's pitching a whole playstyle, of GM preauthored worldbuilding that will be used to determine the outcomes of action resolution in the style [MENTION=6696971]Manbearcat[/MENTION] described a little bit upthread; and in the style that [MENTION=59082]Mercurius[/MENTION] has described as "omnipotent GM". It was published with a licence from Marvel, not DC. So it contains Marvel characters, not DC ones. DC characers would be easy enought to build for it, though I've not tried as I'm not so much into DC as Marvel. (Eg you'd use Hawkeye as your starting point for Green Arrow; Quasar as your starting point for Green Lantern; etc.) [/QUOTE]

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