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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kingreaper" data-source="post: 5170881" data-attributes="member: 83870">And is your winging it some kind of horrible horrible disaster, where because you're making things up as you go along all your players recoil in disasterous horror?Or does it actually generally work out okay, all told?And if a player suddenly mentions that they could block the door if only they had a stapler, and some cables?Do you add those things with a wink and a nod "now you think about it, there WAS a stapler in X place"Do you add them with an out-of-game "sorry about this, it makes sense there were some, here you go"OrDo you leave the players without them, even if it makes sense that they'd be there?You seem attached to this dichotomy. I've never met someone who would GM a game with no preparation.Well, except for me, the very first time I GMed, and everyone agreed that was quite fun, if completely, and totally, ludicrous.Given as we were playing in a pub, a serious game would have been silly.And yes, some players appreciate planning more than others. I have players in one group who feel railroaded if I have more than two lines of notes on the session plan (they don't mind much, but the feeling is there) whereas I have another group that expect a full campaign+setting planned out in advance, or they feel like it isn't real enough.But both groups appreciate a bit of customisation.Run a better game for you? Few and far between.Run a better game for me? Reasonably common.Run a better game for my mate Becky? Pretty much all of them most likely.It doesn't have any particular meaning either way.Meaningless choices like "I'm going to start buying fish/chickens/turnips/gloves as presents" remain meaningless whether it is by coincidence, or by design, that they come up.I know if one of my players started buying everyone they liked gloves, I would make sure some NPC had some liking, or hatred, for gloves. I would make their quirk have interesting results.</blockquote>

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