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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8999460" data-attributes="member: 93670">Listen to what Brennen Lee Mulligan is saying <a href="https://youtu.be/LmZSWKPXhZ4?t=915" target="_blank">here</a>.  Here's a quick & likely only partial transcript skipping a lot of like/um/etc "Lets just acknowledge that there's nothing you can do if the players don't care. At the end of the day I don't care how good of a GM you are, the players are the driving energy of the game. I truely feel that the weird thing about all of these tabletops as a GM is weirdly you're a one person greek chorus.  "You're the supporting cast.  The story has to follow what's happening  out there.  The weird analogy I always find is like when you're baking  you'll find out what you didn't put into the mix in the oven.  You find out way too late to toss it in.... I feel that way all the time when people make characters & they'll be like 'It's not clicking for me, there's something that happened this session that wasn't fun for me' It has nothing to do with this session... You made a character with no connection to the world they are fun... Or you made a character who has no history.. I don't think you need all the backstory in the world... What backstory is there to do is give you trajectory, where you are coming from informs where you are going & it's the going that's essential.  People will be 'I don't need a backstory' cool where's your momentum coming from, how are you moving?  Cause if you start with someone who's like 'what's up?! 'I have a class & spells & magical gear literally no desires & no attachments'.. buddy that's enlightenment I don't know what to tell you.   You're actually done you win, you beat the game.  You have no attachments & no desires?  You have no goals?  No enemies or friends? "  He <a href="https://youtu.be/LmZSWKPXhZ4?t=1012" target="_blank">continues</a> from there but immediately before all of that is a bit from Matt Mercer talking about how he sends out questions & such to his players to back door in some backstory & such that he can use, but that was what led into Bleem got started talking about how you can't do anything as a GM if the players don't care.  They can not care by not bothering to put much (if any) thought into their answers & obviously won't remember the answers <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZknKIWDA1XU" target="_blank">when they come up</a>. They can not care by immediately forgetting those answers only to decide to go back tabula rasa without talking to the GM (or anyone else) on the side.</blockquote>

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