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<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8257771" data-attributes="member: 23751">The PC bubble is the sphere that sort of surrounds the PCs.&nbsp; The part where things happen wherever they go and they are central to pretty much everything.&nbsp; If you are coming up with a rumor of a meteor striking a city as something interesting to entice the PCs, it's part of that bubble.&nbsp; It only happened because of the PCs.&nbsp; If the meteor strike happens independently of the PCs, because the DM is planning events of the world without it being about the PCs in some way, it part of a living world.&nbsp; In the case of the meteor, the DM knows that the PCs will almost definitely hear about it.&nbsp; The &quot;almost definitely&quot; is the key there, because they might not ever learn of it.&nbsp; The DM having planned it out in advance, knows that it will happen on April 27th(insert date on setting calendar here).&nbsp; He doesn't control the PCs, though, so while it's probable that they will learn of the meteor strike, because news travels fast, it's also possible that on April 26th they decided to go to Sigil and do some research into an artifact rumored to be on Ysgard.&nbsp; They spend 6 months of in-fiction time researching and adventuring, and when they return the strike is old news and not really being talked about anymore.&nbsp; The possibility for them to miss the event is one of the key elements to the event existing outside of the PC bubble.Do you use those tables to generate events outside the PC bubble?&nbsp; Or are you rolling on them to inform the PCs of interesting things, thereby inserting those events into the PC bubble?See above.&nbsp; If you are making it up on the spot, it's almost definitely to insert it into the PC bubble as something interesting to tell the PCs.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 8257771, member: 23751"] The PC bubble is the sphere that sort of surrounds the PCs. The part where things happen wherever they go and they are central to pretty much everything. If you are coming up with a rumor of a meteor striking a city as something interesting to entice the PCs, it's part of that bubble. It only happened because of the PCs. If the meteor strike happens independently of the PCs, because the DM is planning events of the world without it being about the PCs in some way, it part of a living world. In the case of the meteor, the DM knows that the PCs will almost definitely hear about it. The "almost definitely" is the key there, because they might not ever learn of it. The DM having planned it out in advance, knows that it will happen on April 27th(insert date on setting calendar here). He doesn't control the PCs, though, so while it's probable that they will learn of the meteor strike, because news travels fast, it's also possible that on April 26th they decided to go to Sigil and do some research into an artifact rumored to be on Ysgard. They spend 6 months of in-fiction time researching and adventuring, and when they return the strike is old news and not really being talked about anymore. The possibility for them to miss the event is one of the key elements to the event existing outside of the PC bubble. Do you use those tables to generate events outside the PC bubble? Or are you rolling on them to inform the PCs of interesting things, thereby inserting those events into the PC bubble? See above. If you are making it up on the spot, it's almost definitely to insert it into the PC bubble as something interesting to tell the PCs. [/QUOTE]

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