Tech Level

[Collapsible Myth]

In plotting out your particular story-line, does the level of technology come into how things play out? Would you allow certain aspects of what players can bring into the story determine the limits you might impose. Keeping people from adding super sentient bio-organic robots because you might have an idea of where the plot may lead. Maybe stating that there are no limits and the whatever they can come up with is on the table.

 

[Rovena]

Actually depends on the plot and how far it has progressed so far.

Most PG plots are "Bring what you have" and kinda no limit as long as it makes some sense. Dak and I both improvise a lot during the events and plan for a lot things ahead of time since we never know how many people come along. Some days there are only 2 people for a mayor assault event, then there are 10 people for what was meant as a quick interrogation. So scaling always is a thing for us. But given PG's seem rather underpowered compared to most characters out there limiting characters usually is not a issue anyway.

Once a event has started I am a bit more selective when it comes to characters that are brought in. (Dak is more liberal on that one I think) Mostly because things are scaled and adjusted to the group running it so too crazy things would break balance. So I limit it to chars that can easy be scaled to.

On my personal plots I am very picky when it comes to players and characters involved. The characters need to fit the story I want to tell, have good reasons to be involved and so on. But since I usually do very intense plots when it comes to private plots, I also need to trust the players, need to have established good OOC communications with them and know where their limits are. (And their limits obviously must not conflict with the plot.)