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Relating to the World

Throughout this blog I have stressed the role of Players becoming more proactive when it comes to developing the setting of their world. One of the key ways to do this is to understand how they interact with the world. In “The Power to Name,” we talked about the power to control your own background relationships. This time we'll talk about the rest of the setting. NPCs are often played in a conflicting manner: either directly as enemies or as “Hostile Witnesses,” as many GMs tend not to want to give the milk away for free. When they are allies, as we talked about in “The Power to Name,” some GMs tend to make them targets. That's because the targeting of love ones often makes for great motivation. In the movie “Taken,” for a famous example, the sentence “Whoever you are, I will find you and I will kill you” was designed to show just how motivated Liam Neeson’s character was to save his daughter.