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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AnotherGuy" data-source="post: 8995550" data-attributes="member: 7029930">Touching on what [USER=48965]@Imaro[/USER] and [USER=71699]@clearstream[/USER] have said, I too have a group of players who prefer building on their backgrounds but not so much on the setting, the latter area requires some nudging and pushing by me. They prefer the exploration aspect and to be surprised. However, despite that, I have borrowed a number of tools mentioned by the story now, no mythos posters here on Enworld from the various games they enjoy, either from mechanical descriptions here on the forum or looking up the details myself and have incorporated these techniques I'd say with some success within our campaign.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I have let them create several NPCs with whom they have relationships with (good, bad or neutral) within their primary city of residence.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">We have used the flashback sequence in an adventure which dealt with heavier exploration and supplies. The gamists in the group loved this.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I've incorporated my own version of skill challenges on various extended tasks. And in some given them the freedom to be creative in the use of the skills by creating their own fiction on the spot.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I enjoy the success with a cost or complication result for skill checks.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Our table allows for players to narrate their kill-shots.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">More than half of them have created a number of write-ups between sessions, expanding on the setting.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They gain 1 additional ideal/bond/flaw/trait for every 2 levels - which are important in earning Inspiration in order to level up in my campaign as we do not use XP.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">We have used Fate points.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Say yes.</li> </ul>...etcThis level of freedom to incorporate new techniques into our campaign while still maintaining an overall traditional style seems to work for our table. The players are still within their comfort zone, they enjoy the twists and turns I bring and these nudges here and there which allow them to be creative are well received and within our capabilities.My very next session, deals with the party being Banished from a dream demi-plane which functioned for a Mazed victim by the Lady of Pain. The way I've interpreted Banishment for this campaign, is that it takes you to your heart's desire. So I asked each of them for things/places/persons each of their characters are strongly bonded to in order to prepare possible areas/situations they would be exploring. The players know these options will appear before their characters and they are to make a choice as to which they would gravitate towards but they are unaware of what each choice could mean. That they leave to the DM.The cleric on the other hand will have his own choices before him as well as the difficulty in trying to direct them all towards the location that had a Word of Recall prepared, otherwise some or all of them may end up in some far off locales (depends on his skill check). I'm not sure, how we are going to deal with the latter if that occurs, but that is a problem for another time. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":ROFLMAO:" title="ROFL    :ROFLMAO:"  data-smilie="18"data-shortname=":ROFLMAO:" /></blockquote>

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