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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dreaded_beast" data-source="post: 1752791" data-attributes="member: 11185">I am vexed, not because I am discouraging it (which I hope wasn't the tone of my original post), but because I am unsure of how to handle it.I am all for PCs changing and shaping the world, but I want to be sure that as a DM, I make it a fun and enjoyable experience for the PCs. If the PCs want to have some grand impact on FR, I want it to be meaningful. For example, if they want to burn down Shadowdale or turn the Stonelands into a habitable area by planting trees there (which they have expressed interest in doing since they have a keep there), I want it to be done in such a way that the PCs feel that they accomplished something. My fear is that I will make it "too easy" and the PCs may not feel like what they did was important.I guess I wouldn't worry so much if it was stuff that I made up on my own, but since this is FR, which I really like and enjoy DMing and playing, I am a bit more unsure of how to handle changes. I guess I want to give both the PCs and the FR setting the respect it deserves when dealing with campaign changing events.On another note, I have played in an FR game where it seemed as if our PCs actions had no real effect. Granted it was a VERY fun game and the DM did make his own personal changes here and there, but the DM followed most of the timeline canon in the book, which meant that if it was going to happen in the future, it was going to happen. For example, we went on this adventure to stop this great evil from arriving in Faerun, which turned out to be the City of Shade. We failed, and Shade arrived. However, the DM said that basically he wanted Shade to arrive anyway, so even if we succeeded Shade would have come eventually.While I respect my DM for wanting to incorporate events that he wants in his campaign, it left us as players with a feeling of being unable to change the world around us. So I've been there and don't want to end up being a DM like that either.</blockquote>

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