[IAWA] How Old-School Is It?
lumpley:
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Time-of-chapter is always GM's call, right?
Nope! That one's a shared call.
It follows from the rules about returning characters. I'm Toth Seren's player, let's say, and the session after the apocalyptic storm we make our oracle draw and at character creation I say "okay, this is Toth Seren as an old man, 20 years older than last session."
The GM's a full and active participant in chapter setup, so yes, as GM you'll have enormous say what things are like 20 years after the last session. You can say that this is the New Age, and Toth Seren has to make his way as a surviving relic, for instance. You just can't now say that everyone from the old age is gone and forgotten.
(In the Flat Earth, Tanith Lee did this kind of thing all the time. "Then there followed an age of innocence, for without Wickedness, there was no wickedness...")
-Vincent
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Quote from: lumpley on December 04, 2009, 10:05:04 AM
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Time-of-chapter is always GM's call, right?
Nope! That one's a shared call.
Gah. I get it now. On a reread of the rules, the "you" on the right side of the first From One Chapter to the Next . . . page is collective, then. We got it in our heads that the GM controlled time flow. That's an aspect of the game I do like better as a shared call, I think. I also think I'd give primacy to the top of the Owe List when consensus is elusive.
Quote from: lumpley on December 04, 2009, 10:05:04 AM
(In the Flat Earth, Tanith Lee did this kind of thing all the time. "Then there followed an age of innocence, for without Wickedness, there was no wickedness...")
Some day I will find these things. The books seem to be OP, they don't make used bookstores like they used to (literally) and internet-ordering keeps falling foul of ADD or whatever.
Thanks,
Jim
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