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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zakael19" data-source="post: 9499681" data-attributes="member: 7044099">Yeah 100%, and to the OP topic: I've definitely seen an expectation that the DM take on and heavily role-play out long scenes with NPCs that players engage with or define from backstory etc with some of that "player-side railroading/writers room" stuff of "hey wouldn't it be cool if they got kidnapped/hated me/etc."It was kinda interesting to me coming from significant neotrad 5e play with some players who were super into OC stuff (getting art, thinking up side-stories, using them in other campaigns as you noted) and discovering narrativist play. Talk about two fundamentally different ways of being "character-centric." I'd always wanted to play TTRPGs where the scenes felt like reading one of the great fantasy novels, but neotrad play never delivered that (in part because as the GM you can't be truly surprised by what comes next when you've authored plot beats!). OC play, or large amounts of D20 mediated freeform role-play, doesnt resemble a novel at all because there's a lot of narratively purposeless scenes that a good editor would strike out.My experience with narrativist games is that they, well, deliver scenes that either push a narrative forward or are interested in getting inside characters heads and exploring shifting motivations / conflict / reflection. There's always a game purpose or provocative question at the heart of a role-play scene, not "can I flirt with the pretty werewolf until she wants to take me upstairs" or "lets have a shopping scene around funny little clothes" or what have you.</blockquote>

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