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<blockquote data-quote="JamesonCourage" data-source="post: 6113392" data-attributes="member: 6668292">Okay, let's look at things. You want to cross the desert to get to the city. There's nothing in the desert that's been communicated to you other than &quot;desert&quot;, so you understandably assume &quot;sand and such&quot; and decide to pass through it. After all, what is there to explore? You don't know as a player, really.Now, along the way, the GM interrupts the &quot;skipping the desert&quot; narration to say &quot;something happens.&quot;Situation A: There is a group of nomads guiding city folk through the desert, with what looks like hardened city mercenaries escorting them. Some of the city folk shout out to you.Situation B: There is a siege around the city as you approach it.I'm struggling to understand how one is more &quot;player empowering&quot; than the other. Both could not be explored by players before they were introduced by the GM, as the players didn't know either situation existed. They can react to either one, or even interact with it later on if they choose to (seeking out nomads, looking for leaders in the siege, etc.). I'm honestly struggling to find the &quot;reactive vs active&quot; difference, or the &quot;player empowered&quot; difference. As always, play what you like <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="JamesonCourage, post: 6113392, member: 6668292"] Okay, let's look at things. You want to cross the desert to get to the city. There's nothing in the desert that's been communicated to you other than "desert", so you understandably assume "sand and such" and decide to pass through it. After all, what is there to explore? You don't know as a player, really. Now, along the way, the GM interrupts the "skipping the desert" narration to say "something happens." [B]Situation A:[/B] There is a group of nomads guiding city folk through the desert, with what looks like hardened city mercenaries escorting them. Some of the city folk shout out to you. [B]Situation B:[/B] There is a siege around the city as you approach it. I'm struggling to understand how one is more "player empowering" than the other. Both could not be explored by players before they were introduced by the GM, as the players didn't know either situation existed. They can react to either one, or even interact with it later on if they choose to (seeking out nomads, looking for leaders in the siege, etc.). I'm honestly struggling to find the "reactive vs active" difference, or the "player empowered" difference. As always, play what you like :) [/QUOTE]

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