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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9222223" data-attributes="member: 93670"><p>You'd be shocked I once had a player reach out asking me on like the day after Christmas /New Year's* questions about ravenloft like two years after a ravenloft game ended only to get upset with me when my answers about ravenloft were about ravenloft rather than some effort at collaborative world building for a game that COVID ended years prior. Plenty of players do that kinda thing and get prickly when the gm doesn't just "yes and" the world instead of other improv techniques like "no because"/"yes but" /etc no matter what the player is throwing out... for example, just tonight I had someone asking how a background with absolutely no clout soft power and standing in society relates to a problem caused when the core rules give players too high of an expectation of those things from a default background choice. .</p><p></p><p>Because with status comes this...</p><p></p><p>Guild artisan is a background guild MASTER is not, kinda proving the problem there... Troubles form when a player with something like guild artisan declares themselves the guild master with years or decades of tenure or just starts acting like it . Throw in another player who acts like choosing "noble" justifies a background that looks like it was written for the favored scion of the god king of all lands and they reinforce each other's delusional backgrounds at the player level while acting on them at the PC level </p><p></p><p></p><p>* I forget which. Everyone was sleeping so I shrugged and kept answering ravenloft questions early in the morning while working through a pot of coffee.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 9222223, member: 93670"] You'd be shocked I once had a player reach out asking me on like the day after Christmas /New Year's* questions about ravenloft like two years after a ravenloft game ended only to get upset with me when my answers about ravenloft were about ravenloft rather than some effort at collaborative world building for a game that COVID ended years prior. Plenty of players do that kinda thing and get prickly when the gm doesn't just "yes and" the world instead of other improv techniques like "no because"/"yes but" /etc no matter what the player is throwing out... for example, just tonight I had someone asking how a background with absolutely no clout soft power and standing in society relates to a problem caused when the core rules give players too high of an expectation of those things from a default background choice. . Because with status comes this... Guild artisan is a background guild MASTER is not, kinda proving the problem there... Troubles form when a player with something like guild artisan declares themselves the guild master with years or decades of tenure or just starts acting like it . Throw in another player who acts like choosing "noble" justifies a background that looks like it was written for the favored scion of the god king of all lands and they reinforce each other's delusional backgrounds at the player level while acting on them at the PC level * I forget which. Everyone was sleeping so I shrugged and kept answering ravenloft questions early in the morning while working through a pot of coffee. [/QUOTE]
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