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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 5433573" data-attributes="member: 3887">If you prefer to frame it like that, cool. I co-created my group's last two homebrew settings, and was the sole DM for one campaign. I like to design worlds to accommodate as wide a variety of PC's as I can, and I leave the nature of those PC's up to their players.  If someone wants to play a faithful, benevolent Dudley Do-Right priest, fine.If someone else wants to play a sinister, scheming priest of the same religion, also fine. My job as DM is to challenge the players while they run the characters they choose to play. It's not my job to challenge them to play the characters they choose to play. My relevant questions are:What kind of character does the player want to play?How can I help them play that character while simultaneously while maintaining the proper level of game challenge?How does the way they play their character reflect back on/feed back into setting fiction as I wrote it? (ie, if someone decides to play heretic of a church I created, how do I situate the heresy in the larger world, and more importantly, want further adventures can I wring out of it?)My response to this is: as DM, don't feel you are required to judge/evaluate a PC's morals, just throw entertaining and challenging situations at them in response to where they go and what they do. My response to this is: what DM wouldn't want this kind of collaboration in their campaign? Look, I love the settings I've designed. I really do (I'm so vain...). But as enamored of my own imaginative output as I am, when I comes time to actually run the game, I'm more interested in seeing how the players run with/reinterpret/generally eff with what I initially created. I'm assuming a set-up like 4e where alignment isn't used as balancing factor. Aha... I think this explains our differences. I trust my players --which I should say are all old friends at this point-- will create interesting characters, so I give them "license" to create whatever they want. I've no need to police their character concepts, and am quite happy bending the details of world to accommodate them. I mean, for what does the game world exist, if not to house the characters the players choose to play?</blockquote>

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