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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 8337383" data-attributes="member: 7025508"><p>But did all those NPCs exist from the day the campaign started? Did you track the lives of the NPC who appeared once in session 20 for all the preceding 19 session to know what they were doing when the players finally met them? Did you track their life after that? Did you this to all the 200 NPCs? Also, certainly there are far more than 200 people in the setting? Or did you just perhaps make up what they were doing when the PCs met them?</p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes, of course you do can do it in advance, but probably not in months and years advance and track the lives of all these NPCs off screen all this time to know what they're doing when the PCs arrive. The starting situation is just something you made up, and you made it up because the PCs decided to go there. Had they not decided to do so, you would not have reason to do so.</p><p></p><p></p><p>That some situations effectively just 'start' when the PCs arrive and it really doesn't matter when that is. And it kinda has to be so for the game to function.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crimson Longinus, post: 8337383, member: 7025508"] But did all those NPCs exist from the day the campaign started? Did you track the lives of the NPC who appeared once in session 20 for all the preceding 19 session to know what they were doing when the players finally met them? Did you track their life after that? Did you this to all the 200 NPCs? Also, certainly there are far more than 200 people in the setting? Or did you just perhaps make up what they were doing when the PCs met them? Yes, of course you do can do it in advance, but probably not in months and years advance and track the lives of all these NPCs off screen all this time to know what they're doing when the PCs arrive. The starting situation is just something you made up, and you made it up because the PCs decided to go there. Had they not decided to do so, you would not have reason to do so. That some situations effectively just 'start' when the PCs arrive and it really doesn't matter when that is. And it kinda has to be so for the game to function. [/QUOTE]
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