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<blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 8244362" data-attributes="member: 6785785">Okay, cool. So then what role would you say your Prep plays in an investigative scenario as opposed to a more sandbox style that you've mostly been discussing? Is there the same &quot;back and forth&quot; between GM and Players as you've described in a Sandbox? Is it more one way? Something else?I'm honestly just trying to talk about actual techniques. It is a bit reductive in the sense that we're trying to break things down into individual parts. I disagree that living world is an approach in and of itself. It is a goal, I would say. You want to &quot;portray a living world in your game&quot;, you don't &quot;living world a game&quot;. Let's just say that some of us in this thread look at that term the same way you do GM's Notes, for the purposes of this conversation. Let's just say you were to describe your game without being able to use that term. What kind of description would you offer?For instance, I can say that one of the ways I portray a living world when I play Blades in the Dark (and which I would expect most others do since it's a component of the game) is to use Clocks. Any Faction has a Clock or two, or maybe more, based on their goals. These are simply little circles cut into wedges. During the downtime phase, I make rolls for each Faction to see how much progress they make toward a goal, filling up the wedges of the Clock based on the result of the roll.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hawkeyefan, post: 8244362, member: 6785785"] Okay, cool. So then what role would you say your Prep plays in an investigative scenario as opposed to a more sandbox style that you've mostly been discussing? Is there the same "back and forth" between GM and Players as you've described in a Sandbox? Is it more one way? Something else? I'm honestly just trying to talk about actual techniques. It is a bit reductive in the sense that we're trying to break things down into individual parts. I disagree that living world is an approach in and of itself. It is a goal, I would say. You want to "portray a living world in your game", you don't "living world a game". Let's just say that some of us in this thread look at that term the same way you do GM's Notes, for the purposes of this conversation. Let's just say you were to describe your game without being able to use that term. What kind of description would you offer? For instance, I can say that one of the ways I portray a living world when I play Blades in the Dark (and which I would expect most others do since it's a component of the game) is to use Clocks. Any Faction has a Clock or two, or maybe more, based on their goals. These are simply little circles cut into wedges. During the downtime phase, I make rolls for each Faction to see how much progress they make toward a goal, filling up the wedges of the Clock based on the result of the roll. [/QUOTE]

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