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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Emberashh" data-source="post: 9317754" data-attributes="member: 7040941">Something I intend to do for my game is introducing what I've dubbed the "Campaign Builder". With the way my Questing system works (ie, living world that will readily act on its own), its capable of delivering conventional AP-like storylines without infringing on the pure sandbox of the game, but also while not cheapening the idea of the living world. To that end the Campaign Builder is not only a setting book, more or less, but also serves as a way for Keepers to begin populating the world and timeline with ongoing events and happenings, with support for all of these to tailor them to any level of player involvement. A lot of what makes that work is the idea that the gameworld can solve its own problems if the players don't want to, and that agency can only be real if failure and/or missing out is possible. This is also why in terms of character development that PCs can be absurdly powerful relative to the typical RPG PC, as if you can command 10,000 Skeletons you're probably going to want to go conquer something, and not sit in a cave just making more Skeletons (though they wouldn't be the only ones who chose to do just that <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ), and as such you're going to have a lot of reason to get involved in the world one way or another, as progression gently, but firmly, nudges you that way. As a matter of fact, even those that opt to simply become bakers will find themselves in the thick of it eventually unless they actively pack up shop and leave everytime something starts to happen around them. And thats assuming they luck out and don't get drawn into something just as a result of supporting their Bakery. While from one perspective a lot of the games heavy integration between all of its systems can be a bit pushy, from another, the players are a part of the gameworld, and like everyone else in it they can't trust that the Big Bad will just sit around forever waiting for the real life humans to decide to do something. Other Heroes will rise, instead, and may be, they'll come buy a muffin one day, and tell you the tale. Either way, its a wonderful story being created.</blockquote>

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