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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 6104688" data-attributes="member: 3400">It would cause a substantial change because I do usually have events transpiring in the background that PCs may elect to get involved in or not. If they don't get involved, the events still occur. I very much prefer that sort of game, in which the world exists and has its own heartbeat. We've often played in campaigns like this since the early 1980s. We would bring different characters in and out of active play, mixing and matching up groups to take on evil as it rose up all as part of one long campaign.Generally, I don't like the idea that nothing happens unless the characters or, as a player, my character group are involved. I don't feel like I'm immersed in a real setting. While it may be true that everything going on in the game really is for my benefit as a player, I want to have the impression that my character is part of a broader story, part of a larger ongoing concern and not just the current scene or plot thread.</blockquote>