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<blockquote data-quote="prabe" data-source="post: 8431438" data-attributes="member: 7016699">So, first: I didn't name names, because I am inclined to think people hanging out in GM-centric spaces online (and EN World is GM-centric) are more likely to think things through than people not doing so. Plausibly naive, but whatever.I think it's possible to understand &quot;responsive to player input&quot; as &quot;sharing authority.&quot; It's reasonable to think of reacting to a player's question about the environment (is there a chandelier here, is there a blacksmith in this town, can I find a corrupt official here) with &quot;I hadn't thought about that ... why not?&quot; as in a way sharing the authority to create the world. I do this explicitly when I ask for PC backstories (and I'm doing it differently in a real-world-adjacent game I'm hoping to start soon). A GM can do it explicitly by asking &quot;How do you know this?&quot; or some similar question.That is of course leaving aside the questions related to Let it Ride and similar mechanics, which can plausibly be imported to D&amp;D without rendering the game not-D&amp;D. Arguably such importation would represent a DM ceding authority to the mechanics, not to the players.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="prabe, post: 8431438, member: 7016699"] So, first: I didn't name names, because I am inclined to think people hanging out in GM-centric spaces online (and EN World [B]is[/B] GM-centric) are more likely to think things through than people not doing so. Plausibly naive, but whatever. I think it's possible to understand "responsive to player input" as "sharing authority." It's reasonable to think of reacting to a player's question about the environment (is there a chandelier here, is there a blacksmith in this town, can I find a corrupt official here) with "I hadn't thought about that ... why not?" as in a way sharing the authority to create the world. I do this explicitly when I ask for PC backstories (and I'm doing it differently in a real-world-adjacent game I'm hoping to start soon). A GM can do it explicitly by asking "How do you know this?" or some similar question. That is of course leaving aside the questions related to Let it Ride and similar mechanics, which can plausibly be imported to D&D without rendering the game not-D&D. Arguably such importation would represent a DM ceding authority to the mechanics, not to the players. [/QUOTE]

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