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<blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 8257294" data-attributes="member: 6785785">Okay, so there's a meteor that's struck a far off city in the game world. In one game, when the status of the city somehow comes up, a player asks &quot;What happened to the Far City?&quot; The GM references his knowledge of the game world and replies &quot;It was struck by a meteor! It was a catastrophic event that destroyed half the city!&quot;In another game, when the status of the city somehow comes up, a player asks &quot;What happened to the Far City?&quot; The GM decides then and there that &quot;It was struck by a meteor! It was a catastrophic event that destroyed half the city!&quot;How in the hell would a player know the difference? Now, I was using the example you offered.....and maybe a meteor crashing into a far off city isn't the best way to gauge if there is some benefit to prep versus improv because it's totally out of the blue.....but I really don't see how from the player view when this was decided really matters, or how I'd even know when it was decided if the GM didn't tell me.From the GM side, I think it's safe to say this is a matter of preference. Some GMs like to have things like this decided ahead of time, others prefer to think off the cuff. I don't see how either is really more geared toward portraying a living world.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hawkeyefan, post: 8257294, member: 6785785"] Okay, so there's a meteor that's struck a far off city in the game world. In one game, when the status of the city somehow comes up, a player asks "What happened to the Far City?" The GM references his knowledge of the game world and replies "It was struck by a meteor! It was a catastrophic event that destroyed half the city!" In another game, when the status of the city somehow comes up, a player asks "What happened to the Far City?" The GM decides then and there that "It was struck by a meteor! It was a catastrophic event that destroyed half the city!" How in the hell would a player know the difference? Now, I was using the example you offered.....and maybe a meteor crashing into a far off city isn't the best way to gauge if there is some benefit to prep versus improv because it's totally out of the blue.....but I really don't see how from the player view when this was decided really matters, or how I'd even know when it was decided if the GM didn't tell me. From the GM side, I think it's safe to say this is a matter of preference. Some GMs like to have things like this decided ahead of time, others prefer to think off the cuff. I don't see how either is really more geared toward portraying a living world. [/QUOTE]

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