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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 6814437" data-attributes="member: 23751">What I'm talking about is that with your method, if I as the DM announce in the moment that the body on the floor wears a breastplate with the symbol of the Order of Manbearpigs on his chest, nobody is going to know what I'm talking about.  They might get a roll, the might author some details themselves, but it's not going to be that deep.  However, if this is the forgotten realms and I say it's the symbol of a Purple Dragon Knight, everyone is going to understand what that means in a way that your method just can't convey.  The pre-authoring of the Purple Dragons of Cormyr is going to add depth to that scene that goes beyond what your method accomplishes.  Pre-authoring hardly constrains at all, and it adds so much more to the game that what little constraint is there just pales in comparison.</blockquote>