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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 8258385" data-attributes="member: 6785785">LIVING WORLD TRAITS<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">GM Must prepare a significant amount of the setting ahead of time, with a focus on the immediate locality, with details becoming less clear the further you move from that starting point</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">These prepared items may originate beyond the PCs' sphere of influence, but with the expectation that they could enter that sphere</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Events or situations must evolve or change irrespective of PC involvement</li> </ul>        I think there are several examples, to be honest. My 5E D&D campaign probably fits into this description. I don't think it's so much that I have prepared the setting ahead of time so much as we're using the D&D cosmology as the setting, and relying on past campaigns in various D&D settings as the backdrop. So it's a bit of a cheat in that sense because a lot of the work was done in earlier campaigns we've played, or in the TSR/WOTC products themselves. The players are free to interact with all of that however they see fit.The Alien mini-campaign I ran probably fits this description. Again, I didn't have to do a ton of prep myself, instead I just stole it from the Alien IP. Specifically, I used the intro module "Chariot of the Gods" and then the video game Alien: Isolation as the foundation for the game. This game was probably a bit more linear than sandbox because there was a kind of "mission" that was central to things, but if they chose to pursue that mission in some unexpected way, I wouldn't have stopped them. My recent Super Hero game using Forged in the Dark  as a system probably fits this description, and such a game is probably the furthest thing many have to a "living world" game as it's being described here. I created the setting entirely, with about 10 districts to the city, and about 25 factions, and a handful of NPCs for each faction. I crafted goals for each faction, and determined some allied factions or opposed factions and the like. Then I crafted an inciting event that began the game, and we went from there. I think the list needs to be expanded if it's to actually describe a subset of games with their own preferred processes and the like. Otherwise, it's so broad as to describe all manner of games. Which isn't really a bad thing in and of itself, but seems counter to what many would like it to mean.</blockquote>

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