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<blockquote data-quote="TonyLB" data-source="post: 2430920" data-attributes="member: 28843">I put out a lot of vague and evocative phrases, then see which ones the players pick up on.&nbsp; If they're never going to care about the tree-slavers of Harrows Gate then I don't want to have done more than that phrase, right there.&nbsp; &nbsp;If, on the other hand, they go totally obsessive about the honor code shown by one of the Monkey-ronin then I sure don't want to be the one to tell them &quot;Hey, he just happened to be honorable, most of them are scum, I'd already decided it.&quot;&nbsp; Indeed, they'll often do most of my work for me, just asking me questions in a way that tells me what answer they want to hear.&nbsp;&quot;So, like, do they have smoldering romances with monkey-geishas?&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Uh... yeah!&nbsp; How did you ever guess!&nbsp; They write poems about... uh... the banana blossoms falling into a flowing river.&quot;&nbsp;Of course the monkeys are honorable if that's what you guys need for the story.&nbsp; What's more, I'm a genius for having known ahead of time the vitally important place that the Monkey-Shogun would play as the game evolved.&nbsp; GENIUS, I say!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TonyLB, post: 2430920, member: 28843"] I put out a lot of vague and evocative phrases, then see which ones the players pick up on. If they're never going to care about the tree-slavers of Harrows Gate then I don't want to have done more than that phrase, right there. If, on the other hand, they go totally obsessive about the honor code shown by one of the Monkey-ronin then I sure don't want to be the one to tell them "Hey, he just happened to be honorable, most of them are scum, I'd already decided it." Indeed, they'll often do most of my work for me, just asking me questions in a way that tells me what answer they want to hear. "So, like, do they have smoldering romances with monkey-geishas?" "Uh... yeah! How did you ever guess! They write poems about... uh... the banana blossoms falling into a flowing river." Of course the monkeys are honorable if that's what you guys need for the story. What's more, I'm a genius for having known ahead of time the vitally important place that the Monkey-Shogun would play as the game evolved. GENIUS, I say! [/QUOTE]

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