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<blockquote data-quote="steenan" data-source="post: 5409844" data-attributes="member: 23240">I cannot give an XP to pemerton at the moment, but I wholeheartedly agree with his line of reasoning here. I approach RPG in very similar way and play with people who do the same.I like putting my players in intense situations, strongly resonating with their PCs, and then letting them address the situations as they prefer. I want them to make dramatic choices and for that, we need a conflict. Making them choose is my job; deciding which choice is right is theirs.I see no sense in putting things in game that are not to be addressed. If I describe an NPC of a piece of the setting, I'm expecting my players to interact with it. I won't force them to, but I definitely won't stop them. The same works the other way. When my players put something in their characters' backgrounds, they expect me to address it. I will challenge PC's honor, push him, make him choose between keeping his word and gaining something he wants. I will make him face his fear and either defeat it or succumb. I will introduce an NPC for the cold hearted mercenary to care for. I will ask questions for the players to answer. Only when faced with choice, they can show who they characters really are and how they change.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="steenan, post: 5409844, member: 23240"] I cannot give an XP to [B]pemerton[/B] at the moment, but I wholeheartedly agree with his line of reasoning here. I approach RPG in very similar way and play with people who do the same. I like putting my players in intense situations, strongly resonating with their PCs, and then letting them address the situations as they prefer. I want them to make dramatic choices and for that, we need a conflict. Making them choose is my job; deciding which choice is right is theirs. I see no sense in putting things in game that are not to be addressed. If I describe an NPC of a piece of the setting, I'm expecting my players to interact with it. I won't force them to, but I definitely won't stop them. The same works the other way. When my players put something in their characters' backgrounds, they expect me to address it. I will challenge PC's honor, push him, make him choose between keeping his word and gaining something he wants. I will make him face his fear and either defeat it or succumb. I will introduce an NPC for the cold hearted mercenary to care for. I will ask questions for the players to answer. Only when faced with choice, they can show who they characters really are and how they change. [/QUOTE]

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