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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guilt Puppy" data-source="post: 1929918" data-attributes="member: 6521">Since Sparky mentioned some meta-fears last time Shavah talked, I'd like to mention that just because she's participating in the planning, doesn't mean I'm trying to steer you in any given direction... Honestly, I don't have a clear idea of what a "good" direction would be -- none of the plans that I've considered, giving minimal assumptions about your respective abilities, allow for certain victory. That's one of my criteria for a good challenge... Creating challenges with solutions in mind tends to reduce the game to a series of puzzles, with the players trying to figure out the solution (ie, the one I "intended") rather than a solution... "I figured out how to beat the orcs and save the mayor's daughter" is a much more satisfying achievement than "I figured out what the DM wanted me to do", and a much more interesting one to watch from my end, so it's pretty win-win. Unless I accidentally come up with a scenario that's just plain unwinnable. In which case, tough. <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> (As a sidenote, this is also one of the reasons I like being in the dark about your specific abilities.)So yeah, don't worry about Shavah. Mainly I'm just using her involvement to keep my hand in the game while you ignore my precious villagers, so that you don't think I've wandered off or something <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Finally, introducing holidays and such to the world is not just fine, it makes me very happy. The last thing I want is for you to feel like this is my world, hands off and all of that... The only time I'll overrule something is if it contradicts or otherwise interferes with something I've already planned or designed, and only then if it would require an unwelcome amount of replanning and redesign. In general, though, I'll deal with such instances when they come up -- if it seems like there's a good chance it might cause a conflict like that, bring it up in the OOC thread, but otherwise, it's safe to assume that anything you want to bring in is "canon" until I say otherwise.Oh, and on the subject of holidays, hope you all are having a good holiday season, whatever that means to you.</blockquote>

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