>PC: "We go to Rovengarde.">GM: "Okay, you're in Rovengarde, what do you see?">PC: "Uhhh, some guards, maybe? Outside the gate?">GM: "Okay, there are guards outside the gate. What do they say to you?">PC: "Dude what the fuck?">GM: "That's a weird thing for guards to ask unprompted, what happens next?">PC: "We go into Rovengarde.">GM: "Okay, you're inside Rovengarde. What kind of shops, taverns, and nobility does it have?"
>>97861387>DM: Here is a blank sheet of paper. Write yourself a story. BYE!
>>97861429>"You go to the cave of goblins. What's the layout, how many are there, and where are the traps?"
>>97861387>Descriptive Control from 4eyou aught to reign it in, 4th edition kinda sucked, OP
>>97861387>Entire session keeps up like this>Player cannot believe the level of freedom>Continue to narrate increasingly insane things, trying to see if there is a limit to the GMs permittance>There isn't>The players exist as gods in a fantastical world, with the PCs as their avatars>All things become dull, as all challenge becomes moot>The players, even under their own will cannot provide meaningful challenge for themselves without a meaningful degree of separation between themselves and the overseeing arbiter>Lacking challenge, they turn on each other>One last battle, to tear down a beige reality where infinite mutability has destroyed meaning>Reality falls apart, PCs destroyed by mutual compact to resolve the game without IRL conflict>GM insists on one last session>'Now that you've gotten all that shit out of your system, lets start the campaign'
>>97861612I might unironically try this
>>97861612somewhat relatedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMldPhSdjxU
>>97861387There's a hot blonde elf princess who marries my human fighter
>>97861612You could use that as the cosmogony for the actual campaign >>97861645Okay, sensible chuckle.
Do this with descriptions for NPCs and maybe some home base type place. Then make the players protect it. Instant investment. Use sparingly.
>>97863068Having my players come up with NPCs connected to them is one of my favourite things
>>97861612They were inside a lotus eater machine the whole time
>>97863314Who stole his nipples
>>97864372He doesn't need them because he's not a slut unlike the rest of you mortal humanoids
>>97864402Oh so you're saying it's fine for immortal humanoids to be sluts then?
>>97864402Sounds like sour grapes from a non nipple haver!
>>97864411That's right>>97864413My grapes are perfectly sweet and my chest perfectly smooth
>>97861464>There's only 1 goblin, we kill him, we gain 1,000,000 XP and hit level 20 instantly
>>97861387You don't know what agency means? Unfortunate.
>>97865466Agency means players do whatever they want, get whatever they want, and never face any challenge, strife, or difficulty
>>97861387I would give the world to have a party so good that we could share the load of setting up the world and NPCs. I have seen this in action, and it was amazing. I have tried making suggestions to GMs, but they usually shoot me down in principle, no matter how little they actually care about fleshing out their worlds.
>>97865466Agency is what you get when you centralise your intelligence.
>>97866001That would be awesome
>>97861387Is this supposed to be funny or what? What sort of emotional response were you aiming at, OP?
>>97861387Who are you quoting?
>average PBTA game
