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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 7458581">Why, though?  If it matters to the game world then it matters to the game.  If I spend my years between adventures becoming a reknowned artist, that matters to the game as much as it matters to the story and the world it takes place in.  Imagine the connections I would have forged between nobility, how did I use my art to influence culture?  Did I extract huge sums of money for my work?  Do I return to the party vast sums of wealth?  Which at its core reads to me like "I'm not going to actually play through whatever you want to do, so just make sure whatever you do has no fundamental impact on anything."  Heck, lets run with your example: there's a gang of were-rats, that is: a gang of humanoids with a highly infectious curse running around town.  "Cleaning them up" has meaningful impact.  Not just that you cleaned them up, but how you cleaned them up.  Did you kill them?  Was one of them perhaps a long-lost son of someone important?  Did you save them and same question?If the were-rats are worth no XP, and have no fundamental value to the story other than being a minor irritation to the town, why where they there?  Because to me it sounds like this thing that wasn't any trouble, and wasn't really causing that much harm, really didn't need to exist in the first place.  It sounds to me like your veto power comes into play right when these things would start to matter.And also: I only got it from your post, not anyone elses.Lol no.  Because I don't run downtime like that.  Downtime isn't a little homework exercise everyone just invents for what happened between now and the next problem.  I actually run downtime.  It's a thing we all do, together, at the table.  Maybe we don't all take part in each other's individual activities, but we are all at the table, taking turns, rolling dice, seeing how the outcomes of our "downtime" turn out.It's not story time.  Ya'll can go home and make up whatever stories you want for your characters.  Kill Asmodeus if you want, I don't care.  But if it didn't happen at the table, it didn't happen in the game, and it sure as heck doesn't affect the world.You know my entire post wasn't responding to you right?</blockquote>

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