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<blockquote data-quote="Campbell" data-source="post: 9278543" data-attributes="member: 16586"><p>The characters in the games I run (and most of the games I play) are not isolated islands. They have positions, responsibilities, and a vast array of relationships. It is very rare for a player character to not at least become important on a regional level. Certainly, they are one of the most important people in the lives of the other player characters. You cannot just excise a character from the setting.</p><p></p><p>The way we tend to think of things in my main home group is that your character (and their attendant associations) belongs to the group from the beginning. It's not unusual for us to ask a player to make some changes to their character to better fit the group and/or ongoing scenarios. Once a character has been removed from being a spotlight character, they still remain important and vibrant parts of the setting and get treated like all important elements of the setting.</p><p></p><p>This means that even if it is a character, that you originally played as, that character's place is going to be dependent on what makes for a compelling scenario for the current game. They will often have gone through things, lived life in the intervening time and might have changed. More importantly the spotlight is no longer on them so they will tend to either support or stand in the way of the current spotlight characters.</p><p></p><p>I will be sensitive to feedback, but the current game is always going to take priority. If possible, I will talk to the players in question, but at least for more traditional games there might be details I'm not able to share if you are playing a different character in the current game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Campbell, post: 9278543, member: 16586"] The characters in the games I run (and most of the games I play) are not isolated islands. They have positions, responsibilities, and a vast array of relationships. It is very rare for a player character to not at least become important on a regional level. Certainly, they are one of the most important people in the lives of the other player characters. You cannot just excise a character from the setting. The way we tend to think of things in my main home group is that your character (and their attendant associations) belongs to the group from the beginning. It's not unusual for us to ask a player to make some changes to their character to better fit the group and/or ongoing scenarios. Once a character has been removed from being a spotlight character, they still remain important and vibrant parts of the setting and get treated like all important elements of the setting. This means that even if it is a character, that you originally played as, that character's place is going to be dependent on what makes for a compelling scenario for the current game. They will often have gone through things, lived life in the intervening time and might have changed. More importantly the spotlight is no longer on them so they will tend to either support or stand in the way of the current spotlight characters. I will be sensitive to feedback, but the current game is always going to take priority. If possible, I will talk to the players in question, but at least for more traditional games there might be details I'm not able to share if you are playing a different character in the current game. [/QUOTE]
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