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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 8014923" data-attributes="member: 463"><p>I don't think that's exactly right. I afford players a very high degree of autonomy in deciding what their player characters do, and this can heavily impact the world-state* in ways I don't attempt to foresee or control. Often this results in highly dramatic and compelling narratives. But I don't run a game of group story creation. I run "You are the Hero - What do you do?"</p><p></p><p>*I think calling it "the fiction" is detrimental to what I want, which is you-are-there immersion in the fictional world.</p><p></p><p>I avoid GMing railroads** like the plague, especially these days (I occasionally used to run chain-of-sandboxes linear campaigns, akin to GDQ). PCs need to be adventurous types, but beyond that they can set their own goals - marry the Queen of Quodeth and become Prince-Regent. Defeat the Black Sun and forge a mighty empire across Altanis. Stomp all the dragons & get the biggest pile of loot ever. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Become the Arch-Techno-Druidess of Golarion. Kill Runelord Sorshen. Create a Pan-Thulean alliance against the Great Doom.</p><p>Some players & PCs have achieved some of the above goals. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></p><p></p><p>**Although I am using some Paizo APs in my Runelords campaign, I treat Varisia as a big sandbox where PCs can do what they want, so entire books get ignored (eg Runeforge in Sins of the Saviours). PCs are currently in the Spires of Xin-Shalast and there was a credible chance a couple sessions ago that the PCs would ally with Runelord Karzoug against fellow Runelords Zutha & Krune, after accidentally saving the world and winning Karzoug's favour. I'm planning to use parts of Return of the Runelords, but with one PC sworn to kill Sorshen it is bound to play out wildly differently than in the AP.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]http://smonscurseofthecrimsonthrone.blogspot.com/[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 8014923, member: 463"] I don't think that's exactly right. I afford players a very high degree of autonomy in deciding what their player characters do, and this can heavily impact the world-state* in ways I don't attempt to foresee or control. Often this results in highly dramatic and compelling narratives. But I don't run a game of group story creation. I run "You are the Hero - What do you do?" *I think calling it "the fiction" is detrimental to what I want, which is you-are-there immersion in the fictional world. I avoid GMing railroads** like the plague, especially these days (I occasionally used to run chain-of-sandboxes linear campaigns, akin to GDQ). PCs need to be adventurous types, but beyond that they can set their own goals - marry the Queen of Quodeth and become Prince-Regent. Defeat the Black Sun and forge a mighty empire across Altanis. Stomp all the dragons & get the biggest pile of loot ever. :D Become the Arch-Techno-Druidess of Golarion. Kill Runelord Sorshen. Create a Pan-Thulean alliance against the Great Doom. Some players & PCs have achieved some of the above goals. :D **Although I am using some Paizo APs in my Runelords campaign, I treat Varisia as a big sandbox where PCs can do what they want, so entire books get ignored (eg Runeforge in Sins of the Saviours). PCs are currently in the Spires of Xin-Shalast and there was a credible chance a couple sessions ago that the PCs would ally with Runelord Karzoug against fellow Runelords Zutha & Krune, after accidentally saving the world and winning Karzoug's favour. I'm planning to use parts of Return of the Runelords, but with one PC sworn to kill Sorshen it is bound to play out wildly differently than in the AP. [URL unfurl="true"]http://smonscurseofthecrimsonthrone.blogspot.com/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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