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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8166837" data-attributes="member: 42582">The players can't have their PCs find a dungeon and explore it if the GM hasn't written it (as per the information that has been established beforehand ie the GM's notes, map and key).A player can't have his PC find his brother if the GM has decided already that the brother is dead.Etc.Furthermore, the GM is framing these situations like attacks on peasant boys with - it seems to me - a relatively strong expectation that the players will engage with them.Now if you're saying that the GM alters or adds to the pre-authored fiction and frames the scenes to reflect evinced player interests, how are you describing an approach any different from heavy-prep story now play?I don't see that allowing the playes to "trash" the setting by making their mark is very unique to your RPGing. It's something that has been part of my RPGing since at least the second half of the 1980s.It's certainly an expectation in AW, DitV and I would expect BitD that the players will "trash" the setting. In all my RM GMing, and in our 4e game, and in all my current games, this is taken as a given.I don't really understand what your point is, or on what basis you are claiming this is unique.</blockquote>