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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JamesonCourage" data-source="post: 7652512" data-attributes="member: 6668292">I can't speak for Danny, but I most certainly would not be disappointed by making my decisions beforehand. It's necessary for me to make them beforehand, even.I have negative interest in making up my backstory as I go along. That pulls me so far out of immersion that it's not something I ever want to engage in. I want to know who I am, and experience has shown me that if I want to know that, I want to know where I've come from. Heck, it's why I made an optional Life Course for my RPG that lets you roll out random events (shaped by a few custom, pre-selected character traits). You can see what events have happened for your character, so that you have some hooks, know some NPCs (good or bad), have some history, and see how it shaped who you are now.I'm not going to be disappointed by writing "sword" down, instead of leaving it blank until having a sword is convenient. I'm going to be happy when I write "sword" down, and then my sword being useful comes up, or when I improvise something because I don't have that axe.I'm not going to be disappointed by making my decisions beforehand, and, if I'm running a game, it's not going to keep my players from having "fun opportunities to grow their character in the game world." They, like me, want a chance to have their characters connect with the world and the setting. They don't want to say "I knew this language all along" when it's convenient; they'd rather pantomime, look for translators, or the like, and see how things grow out of those interactions.I get that you enjoy your style, but both your post (especially the bit I quoted above) and this article come off as a bit one-true-way ish, in my opinion. And both of those opinions, when taken to the extreme (one-true-way), are wrong. They definitely work for a lot of players, but I have negative interest in that style of game, and I'd probably bow out after the first session if I showed up and that was how things went down.That's not to say that my way is objectively better, or anything. But I 100% object you statement, above. I'm going to be disappointed if we do it your way, not the other way around. Because, very simply, your way isn't right for me. And, perhaps predictably, KM's way isn't right for me, either. I'd much rather make explicit choices for my character before play, and do so based on explicit setting facts presented to me before play that I had no hand in making. I want the worlds and setting there, prior to me making my character. I want my background fleshed out, prior to me playing my character, so that I can immerse in my character (since that's what works for me).Your way isn't bad, or wrong, or not-fun, or anything. I mean, for me it is, but it's not objectively so. And I hope people on both sides can at least see that it's simply preference, and that just because you found something revolutionary for you and your group at some point, it doesn't mean I'm missing out on fun (as you pretty explicitly said in the bit I quoted) because I don't like it. It just means that I don't like it. As always, play what you like <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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