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<blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 9282519" data-attributes="member: 467">Even more specifically, it propels A story forward -- that of the PCs. There are many potential stories happening in the world, it just so happens the camera is on the PCs.I think this is an important distinction because it helps with centering the PCs in a (and I'm going to type it and I know a couple posters who will be deeply offended by it) living and breathing world. A world where the dragon sits in its lair and does nothing until the PCs happen upon it is not a living and breathing world. If that dragon (or any major player in a region) has an agenda, motivations and things it would be doing absent the PCs, now you are approaching the living and breathing world. If the PCs hear about the dragon's actions and go seek it out, the action is centered on the PCs in a living and breathing world. If they don't, it still is. But if there is no dragon until PCs enter the frame, it isn't.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Reynard, post: 9282519, member: 467"] Even more specifically, it propels A story forward -- that of the PCs. There are many potential stories happening in the world, it just so happens the camera is on the PCs. I think this is an important distinction because it helps with centering the PCs in a (and I'm going to type it and I know a couple posters who will be deeply offended by it) living and breathing world. A world where the dragon sits in its lair and does nothing until the PCs happen upon it is not a living and breathing world. If that dragon (or any major player in a region) has an agenda, motivations and things it would be doing absent the PCs, now you are approaching the living and breathing world. If the PCs hear about the dragon's actions and go seek it out, the action is centered on the PCs in a living and breathing world. If they don't, it still is. But if there is no dragon until PCs enter the frame, it isn't. [/QUOTE]

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