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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lylandra" data-source="post: 7984893" data-attributes="member: 6816692">I'd also add that "awe" only becomes a factor when you deal with the unknown. This is true for both PCs and players, and it is really hard to impress veterans who have basically 'seen it all'. And I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing or takes something important away from the game. I just want to leave two examples from my own life:1.  Sigil. My first campaign was an epic length Planescape campaign back when I was still a total D&D noob. And if you encounter this city for the first time, it is really awe-inspiring for both the player and the character. The city soon became our PC's home and we spent lots of time in this area, so of course it lost the awe-factor over a while. Seeing it and living in it became routine. Still our DM loved Sigil and the Planes, so he brought us back there for a short visit in one of our next campaigns. And in the next one as well. Thing is, I noticed a dissonance between my PC's supposed reaction and my own feelings as a player. Of course my PC would be awestruck by the city, but for me it was like "home". For the third time, I started to feel annoyed by the expectation that, of course, my new PC would have to go through this very same feeling once again. Because I simply had enough of it. Yep, that's Sigil. Got it. Can we please move on with the important stuff?2. I love rainbows. When I first saw them as a kid, I was totally awestruck. And of course, kids have limmericks about the colors nature paints the sky with and old tales of pots of gold. Being curious, I wanted to understand them, and now, having a scientific background as an adult, I totally do. Also, that feeling of awe diminished when I saw more of them and understood how I could reproduce them (in my garden, with a prism, with a fishbowl etc.). But that hasn't made me love rainbows any bit less. And that's not only me, but also one of our professors of physics who cannot help but make a picture of every single rainbow he encounters.</blockquote>

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