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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 8133233" data-attributes="member: 6785785">It depends on what you mean by heavy lifting. I don't think all that great an amount of effort is needed to run things in a more player-driven, improvised way. I do this in my 5E campaign which is based in Sigil, but which uses pretty much the entirety of D&D lore. Now, I know a good amount of lore for D&D, but there are many people who would put me to shame. And I don't by any means pin down every detail ahead of time. I just use my general knowledge to help guide things. So if the players say they want to go to Waterdeep, I have a rough idea what that entails, and I can present their encounters there accordingly.On a smaller scale, but along the same lines, when I play Blades in the Dark, the action all takes place in the city of Doskvol. The setting is evocative, but it's actually very loosely defined. The broad strokes are provided....it's industrial, there are several districts divided by canals, there are many factions in the city, etc. But the details of those elements are largely left for the GM and players to determine through play. What I have in both these instances is a framework on which to lean and which to draw inspiration so that when my players decide what they do, I can have the world respond in a way that matters and makes sense. There really isn't a strong need to do any significant prep ahead of time. Not to answer for [USER=16814]@Ovinomancer[/USER] , but for me it's not exactly these things. I have a decent memory and I do take some notes as things are established. So do the players. I rely on them to remind me of things from time to time. They often even craft some of the details we have to make note of. Detail depends.....I mean, I am not at all worried about a building being 400' by 600' as opposed to 800' by 300'; this is simply not a concern, an error of this kind (if noticed) can just be corrected. That's not the kind of detail our game is concerned with. Accuracy is also not too much of a concern because we know the important stuff, and anything else can be corrected if need be.</blockquote>

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