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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7056020" data-attributes="member: 42582"><p>Here's just one excerpt, from p 87 of Gygax's DMG, under the heading "Setting things in motion":</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">Set up the hamlet or village where the action will commence with the player characters entering and interacting with the local population. . . . When they arrive, you will be ready to take on the persona of the settlement as a whole, as well as that of each individual therein. . . . The players will quickly learn who is who and what is going on - perhaps at the loss of a few coins. Having handled this, their characters will be equipped as well as circumstances will allow and will be ready for their bold journey into the dangerous place where treasure abounds and monsters lurk.</p><p></p><p>To me, this makes it pretty clear that what sets things into motion is the arrival of the PCs. The players drive the action (though in this case by interacting with the elements of the GM's sandbox, rather than by the GM framing them into situations that engage their PCs beliefs/goals/aspirations etc).</p><p></p><p>IWhat procedure would you envisage for the table as a whole to use to frame scenes? And how would that procedure bring about, say, that the tarrasque is attended by maruts in the fashion that I described upthread.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 7056020, member: 42582"] Here's just one excerpt, from p 87 of Gygax's DMG, under the heading "Setting things in motion": [indent]Set up the hamlet or village where the action will commence with the player characters entering and interacting with the local population. . . . When they arrive, you will be ready to take on the persona of the settlement as a whole, as well as that of each individual therein. . . . The players will quickly learn who is who and what is going on - perhaps at the loss of a few coins. Having handled this, their characters will be equipped as well as circumstances will allow and will be ready for their bold journey into the dangerous place where treasure abounds and monsters lurk.[/indent] To me, this makes it pretty clear that what sets things into motion is the arrival of the PCs. The players drive the action (though in this case by interacting with the elements of the GM's sandbox, rather than by the GM framing them into situations that engage their PCs beliefs/goals/aspirations etc). IWhat procedure would you envisage for the table as a whole to use to frame scenes? And how would that procedure bring about, say, that the tarrasque is attended by maruts in the fashion that I described upthread. [/QUOTE]
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