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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 9530406" data-attributes="member: 6801845">For me?  It's about separation of responsibility, who controls what in that both DM and players have spheres of control.  It's about an approach to the game that I simply prefer.  Basically, when I play D&D I want to inhabit a character.  As much as possible I want to be that person in a fantasy novel just trying to survive with my allies. I want to explore, discover, be surprised by what happens in the world around me.  I want to be like a protagonist in a novel, I don't want to be the author of the scenarios the protagonist comes across.  I don't want to add to the fiction of the world, even minor things because it takes me out of the mindset of what my character is experiencing.  I definitely don't want to go to the extremes I saw in streams for Dungeon World.  Minor details of my past are part of fleshing out my character's history, but I want it to fit into the world the DM has created.As a DM?  I have a long, long history with my campaign world.  For some of the lore? I'm the only one who knows it and I like to keep it consistent.  Other parts of lore my wife knows.  Since I moved a few years back most of my current players don't know that lore and occasionally I run for a different group or add a new player.  I don't create a new world for every campaign.  I want consistency in my world building and just as much I want the world to be logical. I may drop hints of a connection of two seemingly disparate occurrences or groups, things that the players don't know about.  I find it easier to have a living, breathing world and one that can be changed, sometimes dramatically, by the words and deeds of the characters.Other games that I've tried one-shots in, that had more shared fiction? Simply were not as enjoyable.  I like the roles D&D has always used, different people in the group have control over different aspects of the game.  It's not about control, it's about running the most enjoyable game for my players that I know how.  I will never the be the right DM for everyone, but for the ones I am right for?  I've been playing the game this way for decades now and it just works for me and the other people at the table.  No matter which side of the DM's screen I'm on.EDIT: it's not about control because if I thought it would make the game better for everyone at the table I would have no issue with sharing world building.  It wouldn't so I don't.</blockquote>

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