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<blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 9015952" data-attributes="member: 5142">I think that it's fine to acknowledge and engage these various functions of the GM in the context of the text. I believe that [USER=6785785]@hawkeyefan[/USER] has done a good job in at least acknowledging the surrounding context in which these excerpts are contained. The danger IMHO is pretending that these different functions exist with any meaningful reality under a concrete, unstated Rule Zero and then equivocating between these different functions (and additional GMing assumptions smuggled in for good measure) under the guise of Rule Zero.I'm not sure if I would ever claim expertise about any of my homebrew worlds prior to any introduction of its lore into play. I'm perfectly aware that in my own creative processes and JRRT's, by even his own and his son's account, that until &quot;the notes&quot; are actually published and become the fiction, a lot of the lore is actually quite nebulous and in a constant state of flux. This was a problem that Christopher Tolkien discussed when it came to deciphering his father's notes for the Silmarillion and other associated tales that took place in the First Age.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aldarc, post: 9015952, member: 5142"] I think that it's fine to acknowledge and engage these various functions of the GM in the context of the text. I believe that [USER=6785785]@hawkeyefan[/USER] has done a good job in at least acknowledging the surrounding context in which these excerpts are contained. The danger IMHO is pretending that these different functions exist with any meaningful reality under a concrete, unstated Rule Zero and then equivocating between these different functions (and additional GMing assumptions smuggled in for good measure) under the guise of Rule Zero. I'm not sure if I would ever claim expertise about any of my homebrew worlds [I]prior to any[/I] introduction of its lore into play. I'm perfectly aware that in my own creative processes and JRRT's, by even his own and his son's account, that until "the notes" are actually published and become the fiction, a lot of the lore is actually quite nebulous and in a constant state of flux. This was a problem that Christopher Tolkien discussed when it came to deciphering his father's notes for the Silmarillion and other associated tales that took place in the First Age. [/QUOTE]

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