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<blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 2227590" data-attributes="member: 8447">In my campaigns it is usually the case of the PCs being central to their story, while certain NPCs are central to their own stories.&nbsp; In other words, there are other large things happening in the world that have nothing to do with the PCs.&nbsp; The world was here before them and will be here long after them; they are links in the chain of history, imporant links, mind you, but not &quot;If Not For Them There Would Be No World&quot; links.&nbsp; Some events will happen no matter what the PCs do -- and in some cases they are not even interested in these events.&nbsp; What is important to them is their own quest.In a lot of ways I see the PCs like Icarus in the Brughel painting -- Icarus may fall, and may even make a large splash, but a lot of other people are just getting through the world or have their own problems to worry about.So, too, the PCs.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wombat, post: 2227590, member: 8447"] In my campaigns it is usually the case of the PCs being central to [I]their[/I] story, while certain NPCs are central to [I]their own[/I] stories. In other words, there are other large things happening in the world that have nothing to do with the PCs. The world was here before them and will be here long after them; they are links in the chain of history, imporant links, mind you, but not "If Not For Them There Would Be No World" links. Some events will happen no matter what the PCs do -- and in some cases they are not even interested in these events. What is important to them is their own quest. In a lot of ways I see the PCs like Icarus in the Brughel painting -- Icarus may fall, and may even make a large splash, but a lot of other people are just getting through the world or have their own problems to worry about. So, too, the PCs. ;) [/QUOTE]

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