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<blockquote data-quote="Sadras" data-source="post: 6245717" data-attributes="member: 6688277">Well GMs whether &quot;lifer&quot; or not still want the group to have a certain level of fun through &quot;entitlement rewards', these could be narrative rewards (titles, honours..etc) or mechanical rewards (items, abilities...etc). Of course a GM casting ones lot with &quot;player entitlement&quot; is usually going to accelerate the reward process earned by the player from the game/GM. This can be done through the system directly or through play-style.GM's get a lot of flack from players regarding rewards, we generally delay/withhold them either for narrative purposes or so as not to deal with the incremental power of the party which could affect future encounter/adventure design.&nbsp;To redirect back to your question, why would DM's accelerate this reward process 1) Could mistakenly believe that it increases the level of fun gained by the players. 2) Perhaps 'player entitlement' drives the storyline and is part of the campaign's narrative.Having long-term invested characters certainly encourages this style of play which based on the forums I've seen is more popular these days from the &quot;pass me another character sheet&quot; days where character death was more frequent, dare I say, common.&nbsp;3) Time is a limiting factor. Reward the players now instead of dragging it out, cause who knows when next we will role-play. Its already been done where GMs only run story-pushing encounters in their sessions due to time constraints.&nbsp; &nbsp;There are probably more reasons, but those seem like the most obvious to me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sadras, post: 6245717, member: 6688277"] Well GMs whether "lifer" or not still want the group to have a certain level of fun through "entitlement rewards', these could be narrative rewards (titles, honours..etc) or mechanical rewards (items, abilities...etc). Of course a GM casting ones lot with "player entitlement" is usually going to accelerate the reward process earned by the player from the game/GM. This can be done through the system directly or through play-style. GM's get a lot of flack from players regarding rewards, we generally delay/withhold them either for narrative purposes or so as not to deal with the incremental power of the party which could affect future encounter/adventure design. To redirect back to your question, why would DM's accelerate this reward process 1) Could mistakenly believe that it increases the level of fun gained by the players. 2) Perhaps 'player entitlement' drives the storyline and is part of the campaign's narrative. Having long-term invested characters certainly encourages this style of play which based on the forums I've seen is more popular these days from the "pass me another character sheet" days where character death was more frequent, dare I say, common. 3) Time is a limiting factor. Reward the players now instead of dragging it out, cause who knows when next we will role-play. Its already been done where GMs only run story-pushing encounters in their sessions due to time constraints. There are probably more reasons, but those seem like the most obvious to me. [/QUOTE]

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