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<blockquote data-quote="Greg K" data-source="post: 9508447" data-attributes="member: 5038">As a DM that pre-establishes a lot about the setting (species, cultures, deities, etc.) I will agree that the above is bad. I love when the actions of players impact the campaign. One memorable example was when the players, inadvertently, started a war between a theocracy and the dwarves whom had been refugees in the theocracy.&nbsp; It&nbsp; took me by surprise and was awesome.In all my years of gaming, I have only experienced anything similar to a GM tied to keeping their setting intact once play started.&nbsp; In both instances, however, the GM was tied to the pre-conceived storyline they imagined.&nbsp;One&nbsp; instance was a LARP during my brief time LARPing and my character took out the &quot;big bad&quot;, but the assistant Storyteller returned to tell me that the head Storyteller was disallowing it, because it was &quot;bad for the story.The second instance was a very inexperienced DM, whom introduced a random encounter on the first session and kept us dealing with the same random encounter for multiple sessions. Later, I found out that DM decided to elevate it to a full side &quot;adventure&quot;, because he thought we would have fun killing waves of orcs despite it being unrelated to the adventure he told us he was running.&nbsp; He had become tied to this new &quot;story&quot; he imagined and had not noticed players were commenting on being bored- even after two players of the five players refused to return while he was DM.&nbsp;I only returned, because the DM was a relative and I wanted to give him feedback and a chance to improve while the other two players (whom were not DMs) wanted to give him a chance to improve.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Greg K, post: 9508447, member: 5038"] As a DM that pre-establishes a lot about the setting (species, cultures, deities, etc.) I will agree that the above is bad. I love when the actions of players impact the campaign. One memorable example was when the players, inadvertently, started a war between a theocracy and the dwarves whom had been refugees in the theocracy. It took me by surprise and was awesome. In all my years of gaming, I have only experienced anything similar to a GM tied to keeping their setting intact once play started. In both instances, however, the GM was tied to the pre-conceived storyline they imagined. One instance was a LARP during my brief time LARPing and my character took out the "big bad", but the assistant Storyteller returned to tell me that the head Storyteller was disallowing it, because it was "bad for the story. The second instance was a very inexperienced DM, whom introduced a random encounter on the first session and kept us dealing with the same random encounter for multiple sessions. Later, I found out that DM decided to elevate it to a full side "adventure", because he thought we would have fun killing waves of orcs despite it being unrelated to the adventure he told us he was running. He had become tied to this new "story" he imagined and had not noticed players were commenting on being bored- even after two players of the five players refused to return while he was DM. I only returned, because the DM was a relative and I wanted to give him feedback and a chance to improve while the other two players (whom were not DMs) wanted to give him a chance to improve. [/QUOTE]

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