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<blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 9285981" data-attributes="member: 6906155">What questions do you think need answering before you can give a straight answer to a straightforward question? WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY PRE-AUTHORING? If I include in my sandbox proactive NPC organisations with agendas of their own am I, or am I not, committing the unforgivable sin of pre-authoring?There is a village (population outside the players control), it has a mayor (presupposes a political system that is outside the players control)&nbsp; and he has a problem with monster an bandit attacks (suggests a course of action for the PCs) Is this &quot;pre-authoring? If so, I would say you are correct, it is not possible to play D&amp;D without some level of pre-authoring.Sure, and the DM does what is appropriate, for their game, and if free to follow or ignore whatever advice they like. Advice not being appropriate&nbsp; in all possible situations does not make the advice bad.For example, &quot;Don't write Plot&quot;. I will sometimes ignore that, because my answer to &quot;what happens if they don't?&quot; is easy - then I wing it. But I would not say &quot;write plot and wing it if it doesn't work&quot; is good general advice. On the whole, the advice that Justin quotes (but did not originate) is more generally applicable.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Paul Farquhar, post: 9285981, member: 6906155"] What questions do you think need answering before you can give a straight answer to a straightforward question? WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY PRE-AUTHORING? If I include in my sandbox proactive NPC organisations with agendas of their own am I, or am I not, committing the unforgivable sin of pre-authoring? There is a village (population outside the players control), it has a mayor (presupposes a political system that is outside the players control) and he has a problem with monster an bandit attacks (suggests a course of action for the PCs) Is this "pre-authoring? If so, I would say you are correct, it is not possible to play D&D without some level of pre-authoring. Sure, and the DM does what is appropriate, for their game, and if free to follow or ignore whatever advice they like. Advice not being appropriate in all possible situations does not make the advice bad. For example, "Don't write Plot". I will sometimes ignore that, because my answer to "what happens if they don't?" is easy - then I wing it. But I would not say "write plot and wing it if it doesn't work" is good general advice. On the whole, the advice that Justin quotes (but did not originate) is more generally applicable. [/QUOTE]

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