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<blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 9217361" data-attributes="member: 2013"><p>As to &quot;running a world is easy&quot; I think back to the most recent campaign I ran for players that were new to D&amp;D. I set the game in Mystara and at one point the players had a two-hour-long conversation with an NPC merchant who had travelled the world and could give them very basic intel on several different countries. One of the players, after the conversation, looked at me and said, &quot;wow, that was incredible, when you were playing the NPC it really felt like someone that had lived in the world and it didn't seem like you were just making stuff up!&quot; I was only able to do that because I've been reading and re-reading and running and re-running Mystara for 40 years... of COURSE I knew the world like I lived there and of COURSE I could make it feel &quot;real&quot; - 40 years of experience thinking about a campaign world is not a luxury any of us could have had back in 1983. (I happened to use Mystara, but you could just as easily substitute &quot;Greyhawk&quot; or &quot;Faerun&quot; or any number of other published or homebrew settings).</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="The Sigil, post: 9217361, member: 2013"] As to "running a world is easy" I think back to the most recent campaign I ran for players that were new to D&D. I set the game in Mystara and at one point the players had a two-hour-long conversation with an NPC merchant who had travelled the world and could give them very basic intel on several different countries. One of the players, after the conversation, looked at me and said, "wow, that was incredible, when you were playing the NPC it really felt like someone that had lived in the world and it didn't seem like you were just making stuff up!" I was only able to do that because I've been reading and re-reading and running and re-running Mystara for 40 years... of COURSE I knew the world like I lived there and of COURSE I could make it feel "real" - 40 years of experience thinking about a campaign world is not a luxury any of us could have had back in 1983. (I happened to use Mystara, but you could just as easily substitute "Greyhawk" or "Faerun" or any number of other published or homebrew settings). [/QUOTE]

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