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Message: <blockquote data-quote="howandwhy99" data-source="post: 6265742" data-attributes="member: 3192"><p>Old school play uses the campaign world like a game where players can strive to accomplish their objectives. The world actually is full of eldritch secrets with varieties of in magical traditions. Also deities and religions, battles and wars. Sneaking and stealing and saving the day are actually performed. You can't hold back or the world will run right over you. You need to pay keen attention to the details and "lean into" the game and let it press upon you as you feel out the world. Playing better matters. And learning how to work together with the fellow players in order to achieve anything in the GM's system means becoming a highly functioning team of gamers who know how to cooperate. I remember in college as players were so attuned to each other they didn't need to tell their what they were going to do. Everyone knew and the strategies played themselves out like a finely timed dance. While it old school play isn't about making up a world, usually the DM does most of this, it is about discovering that world, a world as game content usable and playable as much or more than any videogame.</p></blockquote><p></p>