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<blockquote data-quote="papastebu" data-source="post: 3459193" data-attributes="member: 40894">Who's to say that this is not a good thing, having fun creating, that is? I live in an area where gamers are either way too young for me to hang out with, or are way too far away to make playing in or GMing their games practicable. If I wasn't so into world-building, for my fiction and the game(s), then I wouldn't really be able to stay connected to the hobby I've come to love over 29-30 years. Even if you have created, on paper or in your mind's-eye, every blade of grass in your world, there's no need to tell the reader/player about it all. I have often been amazed at how things in a novel come alive for me when the author has put a massive amount of time and energy into what's in there before I ever set foot in that world. I don't like exhaustive description when reading, because it slows down narrative considerably, but knowing that if I turned my head this direction, rather than being led the way I'm &quot;supposed&quot; to go, that I would see something there instead of nothing, helps me suspend my disbelief.Take Jim Butcher's Dresden Files novels, for example. He has a pretty good picture of Chicago in his head, and it comes out in the descriptions of places in the books. He then takes the supernatural aspects and weaves them into the picture that already exists. To me this helps lend the books verisimilitude. If he didn't have that picture of Chicago--though it is either researched or he's lived there, rather than make everything from scratch--I wouldn't enjoy the stories as much as I do.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="papastebu, post: 3459193, member: 40894"] Who's to say that this is not a good thing, having fun creating, that is? I live in an area where gamers are either way too young for me to hang out with, or are way too far away to make playing in or GMing their games practicable. If I wasn't so into world-building, for my fiction [I]and[/I] the game(s), then I wouldn't really be able to stay connected to the hobby I've come to love over 29-30 years. Even if you have created, on paper or in your mind's-eye, every blade of grass in your world, there's no need to tell the reader/player about it all. I have often been amazed at how things in a novel come alive for me when the author has put a massive amount of time and energy into what's in there before I ever set foot in that world. I don't like exhaustive description when reading, because it slows down narrative considerably, but knowing that if I turned my head [B]this[/B] direction, rather than being led the way I'm "supposed" to go, that I would see something there instead of nothing, helps me suspend my disbelief. Take Jim Butcher's [I]Dresden Files[/I] novels, for example. He has a pretty good picture of Chicago in his head, and it comes out in the descriptions of places in the books. He then takes the supernatural aspects and weaves them into the picture that already exists. To me this helps lend the books verisimilitude. If he didn't have that picture of Chicago--though it is either researched or he's lived there, rather than make everything from scratch--I wouldn't enjoy the stories as much as I do. [/QUOTE]

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