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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8398741" data-attributes="member: 23751">Put like that, it's adversarial, but in fiction conflict doesn't have to be.  For instance, drow in my game are known to be evil as a general rule.  There are some very few good one, but those are unknown to the common folk and even most informed folk.  If someone wants to play a drow, I will let him know up front that the world isn't going to see him as a happy person and not all of them will stop to talk to him.  If he chooses to play a drow with that knowledge, what happens after is fair game.  The world is not required to conform itself into a happy, friendly place for every PC.A simple definition of adversarial DMing is when the DM plays the game in an DM vs. Players manner.  Not World vs. PCs, which is often part of the game, but DM vs. Players.</blockquote>