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<blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 5496777" data-attributes="member: 2011">Well, the coherence of the fiction is your responsibility, but helping the players out with their narration is not (unless you are solely talking about NPCs interacting with them, or talking about reminding them of some important details that they learned 4 weeks ago, in which cases, those are your responsbility). But if you are talking about giving them ideas on what to say or do, then no, that's their responsibility.In our group, we take notes and they help some, but we forget a lot of the finer and more obscure details. It is imperative that the DM know his own campaign and remember the important elements of the story (and remind us of them). It's not important that the DM help us out with our narratives, even the crappiest of us (which I admit to being with regard to narration, I tend to cut to the chase as opposed to on the boards here where I tend to pontificate).The players are too busy having a blast interacting with the NPCs, kicking the snot out of the bad guys, and telling jokes almost nonstop in order to remember a lot of what has gone on in the game previously. Our DM probably pulls his hair out over it, but many of his more obscure campaign elements aren't that important to the players. Having fun and focusing on the story arc du jour is what is important. Remembering the details of earlier parts of the story is too much like work than fun. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing&nbsp; &nbsp; :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="KarinsDad, post: 5496777, member: 2011"] Well, the coherence of the fiction is your responsibility, but helping the players out with their narration is not (unless you are solely talking about NPCs interacting with them, or talking about reminding them of some important details that they learned 4 weeks ago, in which cases, those are your responsbility). But if you are talking about giving them ideas on what to say or do, then no, that's their responsibility. In our group, we take notes and they help some, but we forget a lot of the finer and more obscure details. It is imperative that the DM know his own campaign and remember the important elements of the story (and remind us of them). It's not important that the DM help us out with our narratives, even the crappiest of us (which I admit to being with regard to narration, I tend to cut to the chase as opposed to on the boards here where I tend to pontificate). The players are too busy having a blast interacting with the NPCs, kicking the snot out of the bad guys, and telling jokes almost nonstop in order to remember a lot of what has gone on in the game previously. Our DM probably pulls his hair out over it, but many of his more obscure campaign elements aren't that important to the players. Having fun and focusing on the story arc du jour is what is important. Remembering the details of earlier parts of the story is too much like work than fun. :lol: [/QUOTE]

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