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<blockquote data-quote="R_Chance" data-source="post: 7728384" data-attributes="member: 55149">I think the &quot;authoring&quot; of the DM is a job that never stops <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> You don't arbitrarily alter parts of the world known to the players but there is a non stop creative process adding to the world. My game and campaign predates D&amp;D, it was established as a miniature wargame fantasy campaign world for the Chainmail fantasy supplement. I've never not worked on it. Parts are well established and known to the players, parts are under construction. Or re-construction. I tended to move the world forward on the timeline when switching editions and during moves that brought about a change in players. There are parts of my game that are still 1E or original game. Thankfully, 5E is easy to convert to.I agree, no one has absolute power in a campaign once started, but the DM certainly has more control than the players. Arbitrary DM decisions tend to damage immersion in the setting; if it doesn't make sense players begin to lose interest. Conversely, the DM may have reasons the players can't understand for events due to their limited knowledge. As they uncover more information you can see the &quot;Oh&quot; moment when the lightbulb goes off over their head. That's always fun. If the players are confident about the DM this works well. It adds to the &quot;reality&quot; of the world when players understand why things happened the way they did. This doesn't invalidate player choices, but it does change what they may do next...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="R_Chance, post: 7728384, member: 55149"] I think the "authoring" of the DM is a job that never stops :) You don't arbitrarily alter parts of the world known to the players but there is a non stop creative process adding to the world. My game and campaign predates D&D, it was established as a miniature wargame fantasy campaign world for the Chainmail fantasy supplement. I've never not worked on it. Parts are well established and known to the players, parts are under construction. Or re-construction. I tended to move the world forward on the timeline when switching editions and during moves that brought about a change in players. There are parts of my game that are still 1E or original game. Thankfully, 5E is easy to convert to. I agree, no one has absolute power in a campaign once started, but the DM certainly has more control than the players. Arbitrary DM decisions tend to damage immersion in the setting; if it doesn't make sense players begin to lose interest. Conversely, the DM may have reasons the players can't understand for events due to their limited knowledge. As they uncover more information you can see the "Oh" moment when the lightbulb goes off over their head. That's always fun. If the players are confident about the DM this works well. It adds to the "reality" of the world when players understand why things happened the way they did. This doesn't invalidate player choices, but it does change what they may do next... [/QUOTE]

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