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<blockquote data-quote="AnotherGuy" data-source="post: 8257653" data-attributes="member: 7029930">For my part, the living, breathing world goal is used in an attempt to (1) heighten immersion and to (2) infer some measure of Skilled Play. Enough people have spoken about (1) in this thread so I'm not going to focus on this at all - but I did try address (2) upthread with a question to [USER=6696971]@Manbearcat[/USER] which got lost in the posts.Again for me, I'm not interested in secret GM notes which do not impact the game in some way, so in the example of this meteorite event that wiped out 1/2 a city, in my game it would have to some sort of knock-on effect, whether it is an influx in refugees, perhaps a shortage of a certain material or two, rising costs of equipment...etc. It needs to affect decision making otherwise as a DM I'm just doing a Meg Ryan.Essentially the techniques used for one's typical D&amp;D version of living, breathing world are DM decides, rolling off tables (if a DM is that industrious) and/or rolling out pre-planned specific timed events. The last two IMO infer some measure of Skilled Play. I liken this to BitD which has the clocks system, and as we have heard in this thread, not all clocks are player-facing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AnotherGuy, post: 8257653, member: 7029930"] For my part, the [I]living, breathing world[/I] goal is used in an attempt to (1) heighten immersion and to (2) infer some measure of [I]Skilled Play[/I]. Enough people have spoken about (1) in this thread so I'm not going to focus on this at all - but I did try address (2) upthread with a question to [USER=6696971]@Manbearcat[/USER] which got lost in the posts. Again for me, I'm not interested in [I]secret GM notes[/I] which do not impact the game in some way, so in the example of this meteorite event that wiped out 1/2 a city, in my game it would have to some sort of knock-on effect, whether it is an influx in refugees, perhaps a shortage of a certain material or two, rising costs of equipment...etc. It needs to affect decision making otherwise as a DM I'm just doing a Meg Ryan. Essentially the techniques used for one's typical D&D version of [I]living, breathing world[/I] are DM decides, rolling off tables (if a DM is that industrious) and/or rolling out pre-planned specific timed events. The last two IMO infer some measure of [I]Skilled Play. [/I]I liken this to BitD which has the clocks system, and as we have heard in this thread, not all clocks are player-facing. [/QUOTE]

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