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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aenghus" data-source="post: 6856031" data-attributes="member: 2656">Some excellent replies here.Another reason not to emphasise worldbuilding initially is that the game should be about the PCs and the choices of the players. And a fairly typical response to an idyllic little village with wonderful NPCs is for the PCs to burn it down and loot it. You can't predict how the players will react to any particular detail in the gameworld, and trying to force a particular reaction is fraught with issues, it's a really strong type of railroading a lot of players hate that often inspires exactly the opposite reaction.The gameworld you use for a rpg is no longer entirely your own, it's to some extent a shared world and the players will make changes in it, some of which you may not understand or agree with.So it makes sense to find out your players likes and dislikes in actual play before fleshing out the gameworld, so you can arrive at a workable compromise between your own tastes and theirs.</blockquote>