"If people are creating the history as they go, is it not the same as simply defining little bits of history that other people can't use rather than doing it all at once? What's the difference? I can't get away with defining half a day's worth of history, whereas other people can do entire campaigns based on their creations and no-one bats an eyelid."
Do you really not see the difference? If you set every event in stone, then there can be nothing between those stones. You run the risk of invalidating past charecters and beliefs, past campaigns and hindering GMs of the future because their ideas cannot be implimented as they wanted. What you want as an aid becomes a brick wall to anyone else.
No body bats an eyelid when it does not ivalidate past, present or future. People batted many an eyelid at the whole drow-elf thing because it went agaist what was known, and thus seriously affected several charecters because suddenly what they knew had changed overnight.
I've no doubt you have created half days worth of history that no one has raised an eye over. You can't tell me that everything you have ever written or discussed about any of your charecters has been dismissed. I just don't belive that.
"because every time I do, someone goes through it with a fine-tooth comb and tells me I can't do this, that and the other"
People might do the above, but only because you don't seem to understand what is okay and what is likely to cause offence.
I don't see what was wrong with Clan Firestorm in the above. No one is saying history has to be undeiable, they are saying that it cannot be forced on everyone. Above is okay (from what I can see), what would be wrong would be imply that all elves lived like that. Not saying you did say that, this is just an example.
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Re: Continued
Date: 2006-02-08 05:42 pm (UTC)Do you really not see the difference? If you set every event in stone, then there can be nothing between those stones. You run the risk of invalidating past charecters and beliefs, past campaigns and hindering GMs of the future because their ideas cannot be implimented as they wanted. What you want as an aid becomes a brick wall to anyone else.
No body bats an eyelid when it does not ivalidate past, present or future. People batted many an eyelid at the whole drow-elf thing because it went agaist what was known, and thus seriously affected several charecters because suddenly what they knew had changed overnight.
I've no doubt you have created half days worth of history that no one has raised an eye over. You can't tell me that everything you have ever written or discussed about any of your charecters has been dismissed. I just don't belive that.
"because every time I do, someone goes through it with a fine-tooth comb and tells me I can't do this, that and the other"
People might do the above, but only because you don't seem to understand what is okay and what is likely to cause offence.
I don't see what was wrong with Clan Firestorm in the above. No one is saying history has to be undeiable, they are saying that it cannot be forced on everyone. Above is okay (from what I can see), what would be wrong would be imply that all elves lived like that. Not saying you did say that, this is just an example.