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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 8146706" data-attributes="member: 7026617">Yeah, I absolutely feel the same.To make it clear, I've been doing it even longer than you, and one of the things I've tried to shed was any of the lese majesty tendencies I may have absorbed from some of the top-down GM culture that was common at the start of the hobby.&nbsp; This doesn't mean I'm not still pretty much in the &quot;GM controls the world&quot; school (though the degree to which some people take it strikes me as pretty bloody extreme--if a player doesn't want to fill in his back history himself, I'm willing to try to do something interesting, but if he is I rarely see some great harm in his come up with details about his village, family or even in some cases organizational membership or religion to the degree it doesn't contradict things I've already done or are important for down-the-line reasons), but the flip side of that is I find it really valuable to have my players keep me honest.&nbsp; I don't feel the need to be playing without the net.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thomas Shey, post: 8146706, member: 7026617"] Yeah, I absolutely feel the same. To make it clear, I've been doing it even longer than you, and one of the things I've tried to shed was any of the lese majesty tendencies I may have absorbed from some of the top-down GM culture that was common at the start of the hobby. This doesn't mean I'm not still pretty much in the "GM controls the world" school (though the degree to which some people take it strikes me as pretty bloody extreme--if a player doesn't want to fill in his back history himself, I'm willing to try to do something interesting, but if he is I rarely see some great harm in his come up with details about his village, family or even in some cases organizational membership or religion to the degree it doesn't contradict things I've already done or are important for down-the-line reasons), but the flip side of that is I find it really valuable to have my players keep me honest. I don't feel the need to be playing without the net. [/QUOTE]

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