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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 6815373" data-attributes="member: 23751">Even if the most natural usage involved dirt and a lack of cleanliness, there are still other usages.Pre-authoring means authoring things before the scene.  If I pre-author the fouled waterhole, that doesn't limit me to one way to use it, or that I even know for sure how it will be used.  Pre-authorship does not have to be total in order for it to be pre-authorship.  That's my point.  You seem to be thinking that pre-authoring involves having a set advance plan that will happen no matter what in an exacting manner that isn't open to change.I'm just pointing out that pre-authoring is not like that and that you can still run a game similar to how you run it AND use pre-authored content at the same time.If the players cannot learn from a fouled waterhole that there are possibly enemies around that are fouling waterholes and/or that they might run across more fouled waterholes, then your method of gaming also has limitations.  You've just chosen different limitations than those provided by pre-authoring.Since I don't know what BW stands for, I'm going to go with no <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />However, your paragraph shows where the misunderstanding is coming from.  What you are describing has nothing to do with the spirit of the game.  The game is D&D and what I am saying is right in line with the game's spirit.  What you are describing is an issue dealing with the spirit of the playstyle.  You have chosen a playstyle to use in the game of D&D that would be violated by a DM narrating the scene like that.That's not what I'm trying to show.  I'm trying to show that the way I do it, in this case pre-authorship, is different from your portrayal of what I do.  Pre-authorship is not the bane you make it out to be.  Indeed, that I pre-author and you stated..."I don't see how, by pointing out that your pre-authorship is not total - that you work out details during play - you think you're showing some sort of disagreement with me."...seems to indicate that you realize that pre-authorship doesn't in and of itself doesn't run completely contrary to how you do things.  <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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