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Message: <blockquote data-quote="grendel111111" data-source="post: 6801216" data-attributes="member: 6803870">Sorry this was in response to post number 582. but the quote didn't seem to work.In this style of play there is no outside forces driving the world or anything else outside the field of what has been spoken in game. So if the characters hear that there is a town over the hill called Longford, then Longford now exists. If the characters catch a thief then he is just a thief, until they interrogate him and discover he is working for the assassins guild which has a contract on the players (Until this point no assassins guild has been mentioned so it doesn't exist till this point (or did exist out of sight). So they know know there is an assassins guild but not who bought the contract. It floats for everyone (DM included) until everyone finds out as the game progresses. The key is that the fiction is written both backwards and forwards. Now that the assassins guild is in the world it must have always been there so what they were doing can be worked into the plot to explain things from earlier in the game (They later find a note that instructed a group of thugs to kill the characters, so the initial encounter they had when the first set out suddenly is tied to everything else). The only condition is do not contradict any that was said before (or more practically anything anyone remembers being said).It's much like in lost when the pacing dropped they would add stuff to get them out of a corner they wrote themselves into, or something crazy happens with no reason other than to push the story forward, that later they try and tie back to make sense. Until the smoke monster is explained it could be anything, the others almost certainly did not end up anything like what the original idea of them was.It gives a great illusion of the characters having figured things out and discovered things.</blockquote>

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