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Yeah, we’ll have to agree to disagree on that one. I’m more interested in seeing how the players “trash” my setting on their terms. I...

It’s the “devoid of any consideration or input” part that doesn’t reflect how I run things. Player-first RPGs often start with a light...

I understand your frustration. I’ve been thinking about this too, and as folks have probably noticed, I like to dig into what...

Looks like a good approach to me. One further detail about Joe and his character Max is that after the campaign’s he never got into...

I admit that sometimes I have a more in-depth background and other times it's about as deep as a mud puddle. For my players? Many of...

Always viewed it more as acting as my players’ travel agent, with the wrinkle that if a location isn’t detailed in my notes, I flesh it...

There's only a contradiction if you consider a location or an NPC to be a story. In the statement above, both the people you're quoting...

There is no contradiction. To put it simply, as I am not acting as a storyteller.

First, I want to say I appreciate the way you wrote your response. I think it advances the conversation and raises some good points...

You know, I could have sworn I addressed this in my very first post.

This is correct. If folks weren't clear, my living world approach is only one type of sandbox campaign. There are others like Ben...

Let me make sure I’m following. You said individual actual play isn’t a reliable testbed, that we only get useful information in...