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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 7387310" data-attributes="member: 13107">Much of the discussion has stayed away from this sort of practical question.I've found that WorldBuilding is necessary when I GM so that I can present options to the players in a coherent, consistent fashion.  I find that the more that I make up on the spot, the harder it is to stay consistent, especially if players have repeat encounters with a location or creature.Putting in a rough timeline in which the players are operations enables the placement events and encounters around the players chosen activities so to increase the sense of being immersed in a real world.Neither of these purposes is there to take away player agency, in any serious fashion.  If anything, they provide a framework from which players can base their actions.Thx!TomB</blockquote>