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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 7368823" data-attributes="member: 82106">I think the key difference is it was the PLAYER who started this process, by describing his goal, to rescue his brother from a demon. The GM then reacted to that by INVENTING the bazaar and the angel feather (its possible some prompting or back-and-forth existed here, we don't really know for sure all the details of play at the table). Now, its true that [MENTION=42582]pemerton[/MENTION] probably started the action in Hardby for whatever reason, but again we don't know really the details of how these decisions were made. In effect Hardby is just a name of a town that comes with some regional geography attached. Even this choice must ultimately be made with the player's agenda in mind. Maybe they established WoG as an overall setting beforehand and created character backstory with that in mind, or maybe Pemerton just whipped out a map he happened to have in his bag. I think he did mention that Hardby was selected based on some general criteria as an interesting place to start an adventure. I would say these COULD be GM driven choices, within certain bounds, but they seem to play a fairly limited part in the end result, being color in essence.Well, they MAY be, and you MAY provide for that. Its just not guaranteed as it would be in Pemerton's game, where NO MATTER WHAT the player's agenda, it will become a focus of play. I guess there could be the usual sorts of limitations here based on the concurrence of the rest of the table with whatever the player is wanting. There will perhaps also sometimes be a question between player agendas and needs as to exactly how an adventuring party can be constructed from the result, or if it can. I recall this was an ongoing theme of Pemerton's long-running 4e campaign, where several characters had almost diametrically opposed interests at certain points.</blockquote>

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