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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 5415274" data-attributes="member: 99">You are very much speaking my language here.The GMing style I've developed over the last several years is to get the game started with some sort of adventure that will last maybe 3 sessions and then just see what develops from there, never planning more than a couple sessions ahead.  Over the course of the campaign some themes and storylines will emerge as important and then I make a determination about how to tie various loose ends back into that main plotline as the thing that we're aiming toward for the conclusion of the campaign.In short, I don't make final determinations about things before I have to so that things are flexible enough for me to twist into some semblance of a unified idea later in the game.However...I've been sort of kicking around a couple ideas about what is really going on with the Darkness versus the Light and "what it all means".  I'm not settling on anything yet but one idea that kind of grabs me is that there basically is no such thing as the Light as a "supreme being".  The Prophets were in fact just a bunch of guys who had a shared delusion about divine inspiration that resonated with each other and with the masses.But it worked!  It got everybody working together to oppose the Darkness and that's what really needed to happen to push it back.  Before the Prophets got the ball rolling, people were just too scared and full of despair to imagine that they could ever succeed against the Darkness.  Once they were inspired by the Prophets and all working toward a common goal, they were unstoppable.But over the years quibbles over their doctrinal differences became arguments became angry shouting matches and now things have descended into civil war.  The people no longer have faith in a unified church and they've started to distrust one another, kill one another and the whole Empire is falling apart.  And THAT is why the Darkness is emerging.  Because Darkness and Chaos are the natural state of things where Hope, Faith and Cooperation are absent.That's one theory anyway.</blockquote>

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