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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7408181" data-attributes="member: 42582">Agreed - so much of the feel of RPGing depends on context, mood of the table, the details of whatever is being talked about at a particular time, etc, that it's hard to make general statements that are universally true.My worry isn't about the gray/marginal cases, but the idea - to which I was responding - that the player gets to build the character and the GM does everything else. The practical way this is handled much of the time in RPGing is for the PCs to be travellers/strangers, who arrive (at the Keep; in the dungeon; in the village; etc) from somewhere else, and have no roots embedded in the site of the scenario.As soon as that changes - and the PCs are doing stuff in a place that is their home - then I think the players have to be allowed to exercise some sort of influence over these elements of backstory (if the feeeling of &quot;PC as alien&quot; is to be avoided). Exactly how that is handled depends on system details and table preferences.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 7408181, member: 42582"] Agreed - so much of the [I]feel[/I] of RPGing depends on context, mood of the table, the details of whatever is being talked about at a particular time, etc, that it's hard to make general statements that are [I]universally[/I] true. My worry isn't about the gray/marginal cases, but the idea - to which I was responding - that the player gets to build the character and the GM does [I]everything else[/I]. The practical way this is handled much of the time in RPGing is for the PCs to be travellers/strangers, who arrive (at the Keep; in the dungeon; in the village; etc) from somewhere else, and have no roots embedded in the site of the scenario. As soon as that changes - and the PCs are doing stuff in a place that is their home - then I think the players have to be allowed to exercise some sort of influence over these elements of backstory (if the feeeling of "PC as alien" is to be avoided). Exactly how that is handled depends on system details and table preferences. [/QUOTE]

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