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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ilbranteloth" data-source="post: 7106557" data-attributes="member: 6778044">That makes sense, although looking through something like AW there are specific responses to choose from. I get that they are sort of vague and are intended to provide a direction for your response. But I still find them limiting. And as I've mentioned before, part of the problem I have with many of these games is the terminology they use. But when I'm talking about 100%/80% it's primarily because there are times in the game when I'm not concerned with addressing the premise per se.When I say that, it's largely because there are lots of premises going on at a given point at time, and I don't see it as my responsibility as DM to direct them towards one or the other most of the time. Sometimes there are time-sensitive things, so that obviously puts some pressure on them.So let me ask this - My campaign typically has at least a dozen plots going on at once. Usually there are one or two specific to each character - goals they have, others are either group or setting specific, they know of a potential attempt to overthrow the local Lord, or something like that. Others might be a map they acquired that shows the location of a long lost tomb. So when they are following a particular storyline, my goal is to support that, and based on what I see in Story Now games, a lot of those techniques are in use, although perhaps not as coherently. Between those points, though, it's really up to the PCs to determine what's next. And the PCs may decide to change course in the middle of one story line.Do Story Now, or perhaps your Story Now games have or support that sort of game? Personally, I'm not a big fan of the sandbox approach either. At least not as championed by those who swear by a "pure" sandbox. That the DM shouldn't interfere at all in anything that's going on. I tend to use the term living sandbox, although I don't know if that means anything to anybody else. But the point is that the DM has a broad responsibility for the things that are happening in the world as a whole. Whether it's the weather, or impending orc raids, plots and schemes by the many villains and villainous organizations, and local and regional political issues, etc. That doesn't require the DM to detail and catalog all of that sort of things beforehand, although I personally think it makes it easier.For me I see benefits in both methods (which seem to be the two extremes).</blockquote>

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