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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Terwox" data-source="post: 1795430" data-attributes="member: 1044">40/60, currently.  I set up a good deal of stuff -- but I focus most of my attention on things the players did that I didn't expect, and run with them -- that's the most fun, to me.I love running with what a player wants to do, instead of what I want -- their solutions are far more elegant and interesting, I think, if I have no idea what they will be in the first place!The end of my last campaign worked like that -- I set them up with a series of challenges that I had no idea how to defeat, and they neatly got through all of them and ascended.  It was fantastic for me, and hopefully fun for them.I've also played in a 100% reactive campaign... that was awesome.  Playing Wraith, the DM basically cut a lot of the White Wolf backstory, and the ENTIRE game was ONLY dealing with the stuff we wrote.  It was REALLY COOL, and I wish I still had a chance to play in that game.  It's also something I think would be really hard to do in D&D... in Wraith... you must plot out your characters entire backstory -- but you also have to plot out their entire reason for being a ghost... you sort of plot out who they have been, but also, why they're still there.In short... 100% reactive stuff is really cool.I've tried running 10pro/90reactive, but in the wrong format, and it flopped.  Hard.</blockquote>