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<blockquote data-quote="Ariosto" data-source="post: 5015187" data-attributes="member: 80487">That kind of improvisation is something I have seen mainly from DMs in the &quot;I'm a Story Teller!&quot; camp. Its reputation for badness goes back years before Dragonlance, along with the observation that some players just happen to prefer to be manipulated.Knowing the Baron well enough that depiction of his demeanor flows naturally from that knowledge is a basic skill of Dungeon Mastering, whichever style of play one may adopt! Knowing your imaginary world well enough to extrapolate quickly and confidently the nature of a random encounter -- or in appropriate detail as needed the furnishings of a peasant's hovel, tradesman's shop, parish church, wayside inn, or whatever else may be at hand -- is part of skill at being a DM as well.The fundamental stumbling block you need to get over is this notion of &quot;an adventure&quot; as necessarily meaning something the DM does to the players.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ariosto, post: 5015187, member: 80487"] That kind of improvisation is something I have seen mainly from DMs in the "I'm a [I]Story Teller[/I]!" camp. Its reputation for badness goes back years before Dragonlance, along with the observation that [i]some[/i] players just happen to prefer to be manipulated. Knowing the Baron well enough that depiction of his demeanor flows naturally from that knowledge is a basic skill of Dungeon Mastering, whichever style of play one may adopt! Knowing your imaginary world well enough to extrapolate quickly and confidently the nature of a random encounter -- or in appropriate detail as needed the furnishings of a peasant's hovel, tradesman's shop, parish church, wayside inn, or whatever else may be at hand -- is part of skill at being a DM as well. The fundamental stumbling block you need to get over is this notion of "an adventure" as necessarily meaning something the DM does to the players. [/QUOTE]

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