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<blockquote data-quote="AnotherGuy" data-source="post: 9538685" data-attributes="member: 7029930">For the record, I have not been following this thread, but I was curious as to why this topic was still ongoing and now I have seen why, as typically threads of this size take a completely different course to the OP. Anyways the last few pages caught my eye...I've seen you mention this before on Enworld about story and it confuses me.I also enjoy the exploration of the setting (as [USER=42582]@pemerton[/USER] has described it in the past setting tourism) but isn't the evolving story also part of that exploration? I can understand not liking a particular style of story generation, but I see exploration of setting to include<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">lore behind the world/cosmos, the way magic works, the land's history...etc;</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">the characters brought to life by the DM;</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">the peculiarities of the setting; and</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">the evolving story as per the adventure path planned by the DM</li>
</ul>This I understand.What about character goals and motivations, do you try find a way to provide ways for PCs to pursue them should they want to or do you solely focus on the adventure path?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AnotherGuy, post: 9538685, member: 7029930"] For the record, I have not been following this thread, but I was curious as to why this topic was still ongoing and now I have seen why, as typically threads of this size take a completely different course to the OP. Anyways the last few pages caught my eye... I've seen you mention this before on Enworld about story and it confuses me. I also enjoy the exploration of the setting (as [USER=42582]@pemerton[/USER] has described it in the past [I]setting tourism[/I]) but isn't the evolving story also part of that exploration? I can understand not liking a particular style of story generation, but I see exploration of setting to include [LIST] [*]lore behind the world/cosmos, the way magic works, the land's history...etc; [*]the characters brought to life by the DM; [*]the peculiarities of the setting; [B]and[/B] [*][B]the evolving story as per the [I]adventure path[/I] planned by the DM[/B] [/LIST] This I understand. What about character goals and motivations, do you try find a way to provide ways for PCs to pursue them should they want to or do you solely focus on the [I]adventure path?[/I] [/QUOTE]

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