Office Hours - Cinematic vs Sandbox-style games

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This is the first of, hopefully, a series of small videos I will make giving you some advice on topics of roleplaying, storytelling, and so on. I'm by no means an expert, but enough of you requested this in my survey that I felt I should give it a try.

We're starting off at the very fundamentals: What kind of a game are we going to play? I generally try to look at this from two perspectives: Do I want to be in charge of everything and give the players a cool experience, or do I want to let them have more control over the plot and events?

Let me know what you folx think! This is new territory for me and it's very different from what I'm used to doing, so I hope you'll enjoy it!

Also, credit to Salubri Cat for his awesome video series on Chronicle construction. You can learn a lot by checking out his stuff over at
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEN-I0eZEEMtD46Ag9hBp3w

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