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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AlViking" data-source="post: 9698288" data-attributes="member: 6906980">I don't see how you can make the game not boring and the character's lives boring.  To put it another way, if the players are engaged and having fun what difference does it make?  I don't really care too much but I've seen so many times where these phrases are repeated as if they have some deeper meaning and I just don't see it.  Of course I don't want my players to be bored, I just do that by giving them opportunities for their characters to move the action forward and by responding to their declared actions and words in interesting ways.  I don't have have a bumper sticker like adage like "Be fans of your players" because wanting my players to have fun is just kind of a given.What people are really trying to say as far as I can tell is that in some games it's the GM's job to push the narrative forward as opposed to my approach of giving them enough threads to follow that they can always latch on to something they find interesting.</blockquote>