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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 8227143" data-attributes="member: 463">You keep adding in words like 'DM's story' and 'DM's ideas' which are not there and are completely alien to Gygaxian play.Here's excerpts from Territory Development by Player Characters DMG page 94 which gives a flavour of his actual approach:Assume that the player in question decides that he will set up a strongholdabout 100 miles from a border town, choosing an area of wooded hills as thegeneral site. He then asks you if there is a place where he can build a smallconcentric castle on a high bluff overlooking a river. Unless this is totally foreignto the area, you inform him that he can do so. You give him a map of the hexwhere the location is, and of the six surrounding hexes. The player characterand his henchmen and various retainers must now go to the construction site,explore and map it, and have construction commence....Going back to the construction of the stronghold, when the player elects tobuild he or she must be required to furnish you with a duplicate set of plans ofthe castle grounds, its dungeons, and interiors as well. At the same time youcan give the player a free hand in drawing a small scale map of the areaimmediately around his or her stronghold — say, on a 1 hex to 30 yards basis,so about a one-half mile area hex can be depicted on a normal sheet of smallhex paper, and a bit beyond shown as needed. With your copy of this mapyou can plan sieges or other attacks as they occur.If for any reason a player who has developed territory gives up the campaign,or simply drops the character in favor of another, you can then take over theseareas and run them as you like to benefit your campaign. In all respects, then,development of territory by player characters is a highly desirable aspect of thecampaign. It gives added purpose to play, and provides long periods where theplayer can be actively involved in the actual direction of the campaign milieu,which will eventually benefit things regardless of what transpires at a later date.</blockquote>

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