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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 7558695"><p>I think this is a really key point. There is a big difference between 'we go to the tea house we already knows exist" and the GM creating a teahouse simply because the players say they go to one (again, if that fact hasn't yet been established, it is perfectly reasonable for the GM to decide whether there is one or not---in my wuxia setting, Tea Houses in big cities are pretty ubiquitous, so it is probably going to be something like 'why yes there are eight tea houses in this city---and I will usually make them up there on the spot so the players can choose). One trick to making this style work is to take notes in advance of what is happening and also make some decisions about those things. If I sense the players are going into the city to look for Bone Breaking sect, I migth start scribbling notes to myself about where bone breaking sect members are in the setting, what they are presently doing, if there is anything going on in the city involving them. I don't have to do any of these things. But it is something I tend to do so when players do ask, there is a concrete response. Again, if the stuff hasn't already been established in some way. And the world is always bigger than just bone breaking sect. The players might go looking for them at the tea house. They might find someone else with an interest in the sect, a former member of the sect, or a group of students from a rival sect who are planning on finding some bone breaking sect members themselves (who might prove useful allies, but whose aggression could pose a problem if the players are trying to be tactful).</p></blockquote><p></p>

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