thread: 2006-01-05 : I suspect but can't prove...
On 2006-01-05, Vaxalon wrote:
There's a difference here.
In GMless play, when you smash the GM, you redistribute his body parts to the other participants. Noone loses because the guy who WOULD lose (the GM) isn't at the table anymore.
If you want to end "My Guy" play, then you have to do something similar. You can't take a piece of my player away, and not give me anything back in return.
Instead, think of this...
You have a group of (one or more) characters. None of them are owned IN ANY SENSE by any of the players.
To take a facile stand on the idea, you have three players. One plays the Ids of the various characters, one the Egos, and one the Superegos.
Or Parent/Adult/Child.
Or any other fractionation of personality you care to define.
Or maybe one player controls a different fraction of each character.
But if you give me a character, and say, "Here, this is yours," and then to say, "But everyone else at the table can mess with it anytime they like, and you can't do anything about it," then my response is, "Then it's not mine anymore. "
To own is to control. If I don't control it, then I don't own it.
