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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwoSix" data-source="post: 6815453" data-attributes="member: 205">I have trouble trusting your parsing of all of [MENTION=42582]pemerton[/MENTION]'s posts, if after 800+ posts you still don't know that BW = Burning Wheel.Still, let's boil down this down even further.  No one is saying pre-authoring is bad, or that if you pre-author you're a lousy DM who loves to railroad his players.  Some people are simply saying that for their DM style, it's a net negative.  The gains in campaign consistency and depth of the world don't matter, because their game isn't about exploring the world.  The game is about the characters, the setting is merely a frame to place their goals and drives into context.  What does matter is that if you pre-author an uncrossable canyon in the middle of the desert, or that the all the waterholes have been fouled by a Dark Elf so that the characters have to turn back, you as a DM have just c***blocked your players out of their protagonism.  You made their statement of intent to cross the desert NOT MATTER, because it was more important to you as a DM to make your world have a canyon in it, or to illustrate that the dark elf is a cunning tactician who's also totally gross.  No one is saying that campaign world detail isn't a worthy goal for many styles of play, or the players and DMs who enjoy them.  But for a game focused on narrative play, all it does it create hassle that's in opposition to the heart of the play style.</blockquote>

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