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<blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 6529227">I agree and disagree.&nbsp; You're right that in the big picture, the story as a whole, the houses are the protagonists/antagonists.&nbsp; You rarely see someone rooting for a single character who doesn't also root for the faction that character represents.&nbsp; But like many stories the &quot;big picture&quot; is told through a series of smaller stories.&nbsp; A story within the story so to speak.&nbsp; Within those more focused, lets call them &quot;episodes&quot; the characters themselves are the protagonists/antagonists.&nbsp; I do try to set this up in some of my games, I have run &quot;other parties&quot; within my game as a part of a random encounter table.&nbsp; Would the mighty king really rely on only 5 strangers to recover his kidnapped daughter?&nbsp; I think not.&nbsp; He just doesn't let them all know they're competing, or maybe he does, maybe it's an open contract, whoever gets her back first wins.&nbsp; The players are the focus of the story and insomuch they can be the protagonists and the antagonists of the story, depending on their objectives, but occasionally they will discover that they are not the only actors within the story.I don't think I would have my players play houses in a GoT-styled story.&nbsp; I think I would either have them create multiple characters that they may end up competing with themselves to represent the multitude of internal stories within the &quot;series&quot; itsself, or as I have done before, I would run all those alternative groups and between sessions determine what the outcomes of their adventures were and how that might affect what will happen to our &quot;focus group&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sunseeker, post: 6529227"] I agree and disagree. You're right that in the big picture, the story as a whole, the houses are the protagonists/antagonists. You rarely see someone rooting for a single character who doesn't also root for the faction that character represents. But like many stories the "big picture" is told through a series of smaller stories. A story within the story so to speak. Within those more focused, lets call them "episodes" the characters themselves are the protagonists/antagonists. I do try to set this up in some of my games, I have run "other parties" within my game as a part of a random encounter table. Would the mighty king really rely on only 5 strangers to recover his kidnapped daughter? I think not. He just doesn't let them all know they're competing, or maybe he does, maybe it's an open contract, whoever gets her back first wins. The players are the [I]focus[/I] of the story and insomuch they can be the protagonists and the antagonists of the story, depending on their objectives, but occasionally they will discover that they are not the only actors within the story. I don't think I would have my players play houses in a GoT-styled story. I think I would either have them create multiple characters that they may end up competing with themselves to represent the multitude of internal stories within the "series" itsself, or as I have done before, I would run all those alternative groups and between sessions determine what the outcomes of their adventures were and how that might affect what will happen to our "focus group". [/QUOTE]

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