Author: DannyK (---.107.22)
Date: 06-09-2005 15:48
Thank you for the interesting and helpful article, but I had to wince when you advocated doing lots of IC stuff with misleading information, and then having a "Big Secret" to the campaign setting that you never state in the final text.
That kind of thing was totally overused by White Wolf and is guaranteed to annoy a lot of gamers if someone does it now. Please note, I'm not talking about "Canon Doubt and Uncertainty" -- it's perfectly fine to say that King Arthur disappeared 15 years ago and nobody's every found him; it's even better to have a section discussing different interesting possiblities for what happened to him. But I cannot abide a campaign setting that says King Arthur disappeared and give some tantalizing hints about where he went -- but then spitefully withholds the one true answer until you buy the next book in the series.
That pisses me off when White Wolf does it, and the newbie setting writer doesn't get the same breaks White Wolf does.
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