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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Shaman" data-source="post: 5292055" data-attributes="member: 26473">Nor do I, or more precisely, I play them <a href="http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=41801" target="_blank">one day a year</a>.I do tend to use 'D&D-isms' in forum posts, particularly on ENWorld, as a convenient shorthand - the memes of Dungeons and Dragons make up a sort of lingua franca among roleplaying gamers.So do I, in that I don't write adventures at all. There is a setting - <a href="http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/le-ballet-de-l-acier" target="_blank">Paris 1625!</a> - or an open-ended initial situation - <a href="http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/cold-warriors" target="_blank">Africa 1980!</a> - and the game is driven by what the players and their characters do.Yeah, no, that's about as far removed from the way I approach roleplaying games as it gets.So do I, which is why I dispense with plots and hooks altogether.What I do have is a group of adventurers with goals to pursue. The adventure is what results from that pursuit.Roleplaying games =/= literature.It's what makes roleplaying games great, in my humble opinion.For me, playing the game is the good stuff. Exploring a world is the good stuff. Developing relationships with other characters, both player and non-, is the good stuff. Chasing dreams is the good stuff.Really, it's wall-to-wall good stuff.I completely agree.Nonsense.Relationships established in play are the building blocks of a great game.I honestly couldn't care less where the characters begin, They can start on a streetcorner as far as I'm concerned.It's what they do next that drives the game.I expect the adventurers to put down roots in play.I pay very little attention to character backgrounds, actually. What your character does when we're all sitting around the table together is what's important to me. I encourage players to write backgrounds which are more about what the character plans to do, not what the character did.I played D&D last Saturday, my annual fix. But none of this is specific to D&D.It shows.Perhaps a bit.Yup.You're standing at the gates of Paris. The year is 1625. You have a sword and some coins and your wits. Make your fortune.Does it really take more than that?</blockquote>

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