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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herobizkit" data-source="post: 2851508" data-attributes="member: 36150">I voted 8.  When we game, we're all about the story.  My DM has concoted neary 30k game years of history for his campaign world, he has a well-thought out over-arcing plot, and leaves it pretty much up to me whether or not I get involved.  If I do, then that adds to the game world overall.  If I don't, his NPCs will chug along with his original plans.  The PC/NPC banter enriches the characters and their place in the world at large.  We drive our own story, but there's alwyas a larger story that's going on in the background.By contrast, my personal style of DMing is largely PC/NPC banter.  In fact, my current solo campaign is being run along the vein of a soap opera.  We have the main hero, dashing and suave and charismatic (and a Half-Celestial Gestalt Paladin/Rogue; he's pretty much a cross between Superman and Hercules in powers and demeanor).  We have his cast of characters; four females, four males, and the interplay between them and the hero.  We run a 18+ game, and so the stories get "interesting".  Basically, it all revolves around the hero trying to "get with" all four girls... at once.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" /> On the peripheral, he's also the king of a shattered country located in a tropical archipelago, and so we have a Pirates of the Caribbean/The New World vibe in there as well.  I keep placing him in madcap misadventure after misadventure, and every once in a while I'll actually put him through a module to mix it up.  It works VERY well, and I couldn't imagine playing strictly the "traditional" kill things and take their stuff or even the 3.5 wargame-y version of D&D with this scenario.The story is pretty much made up as we go.   When He DM's, it's the same way.  Works well.</blockquote>

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