Re: [BNW] Meta-Plot vs Static world

["William Davis" <williamjdavis@hotmail.com>]

If I don't KNOW the answer to the #$%$#% question, I will not be able to 
develop a coherent response to my players inquiries. If they investigate 
some portion of it I am left flapping in the breeze. Sure, they haven't 
gotten too deep yet. HOWEVER, I simply will not dead-end them with the only 
reason being "No, I really don't have the answer yet, so nothing you try is 
going to work." It's called GM caveat and I absolutely detest using it. 
Player comes up with a great, out-of-left-field, idea that blind-sides me, 
(and most probably my NPCs) and could work, if I had any idea what it could 
uncover. But since I haven't decided I have to kludge an answer, and I punch 
a hole in my own continuity....
No, I didn't give away any secrets to my players. They found a vague spot in 
my description of how something works, and so they were pursuing it 
doggedly, and were forcing me to make decisions on the 'mystery'. So I 
stopped and said "this is just vague because I haven't worked out all the 
depth yet. So we can keep going and I will decide as we go... or you can cut 
it loose a bit and I will work it out more coherently". See WE are trying to 
tell a story. It's not my plot or my world or my secrets. WRONG, WRONG, 
WRONG. which is why I never use GM caveat to save some pet plot I have.


From: "g. m." <gm1970@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: bnw@gamerz.net
To: bnw@gamerz.net
Subject: Re: [BNW] Meta-Plot vs Static world
Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 05:41:12 GMT

::SNIP::
>question my own way, and figure out how to crunch things)Now here is a
>possible answer for my world:
>Delta/alpha powers are caused by an Alien energy spore released when a
>spaceship crashed at Roswell prior to WW1.
::SNIP::

And exactly when/how were your players' characters going to figure this out, 
and exactly why is that sooner that when the published (And no more or less 
valid than yours) was going to be revealed to them? Or are you telling this 
to your players so they stopped asking you where their powers come from? Do 
you tell them all your worlds secrets before their charcters would find it 
out, so they stop asking you?

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