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<blockquote data-quote="Woas" data-source="post: 5024661" data-attributes="member: 16317">You answered but I'm not sure you realize it Janx.As a player, creating a player-character claiming &quot;My parents shipped me off to wizards school. I just graduated.&quot; means as a player you have just created part of the fiction. Everyone else playing including the GM agrees and understands that somewhere in the fictional world that the characters are part of there is 1) A school of wizardry, 2) that it accepts students and isn't say, an invite only secret society,&nbsp; 3) people graduate from it so thus are taught magic in some regimented way and isn't say, some ritual or inborn ability only the seventh sons of seventh sons can learn, 4) that there are other graduates out there.What if a player had written, &quot;My character is a veteran of the defeated side of the recent Civil War&quot;. By civil war I don't necessarily mean the American Civil War or any other real world historic civil wars but a fictitious, world altering event in the fictitious game we are all playing. (Say the Wood vs High Elf civil war) That player has just introduced a pre-game event and we can imply, just like the sentence about being a graduate from wizard school a number of game setting info, plus info about the character.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Woas, post: 5024661, member: 16317"] You answered but I'm not sure you realize it Janx. As a player, creating a player-character claiming "My parents shipped me off to wizards school. I just graduated." means as a player you have just created part of the fiction. Everyone else playing including the GM agrees and understands that somewhere in the fictional world that the characters are part of there is 1) A school of wizardry, 2) that it accepts students and isn't say, an invite only secret society, 3) people graduate from it so thus are taught magic in some regimented way and isn't say, some ritual or inborn ability only the seventh sons of seventh sons can learn, 4) that there are other graduates out there. What if a player had written, "My character is a veteran of the defeated side of the recent Civil War". By civil war I don't necessarily mean the American Civil War or any other real world historic civil wars but a fictitious, world altering event in the fictitious game we are all playing. (Say the Wood vs High Elf civil war) That player has just introduced a pre-game event and we can imply, just like the sentence about being a graduate from wizard school a number of game setting info, plus info about the character. [/QUOTE]

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