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Because the cook is there regardless of the player's roll. Haven't we been through this?

Players opting to get on the rail doesn't make it not a railroad. If everything the players do propels them down the same path towards...

The framing is very important to me, because it determines what is actually in the world at this moment, not just the results.

Their skill at lock-picking? That's the skill in question here.

Depends on how they approach the obstacles, but aren't most adventure scenarios a series of obstacles? No single failure should mean...

And it actually does! Because the DM put the work in outside the playspace at the table. I think it's silly to assert that in a game...

This is not a correct criticism of my position. I don't mind that the DM is making things up. I mind if they do so in a manner which...

I just thought it was a funny story that portrayed Narrativist GMs as being as tyrannical as some posters seem to think...

It's not the same because the cooks location does not depend on the players lockpicking skill.

Yeah. I've never really thought about it like that, but for the DM all possibilities are there until one of them is selected(chosen or...

I mean that's essentially what the complaint boils down to. The cook isn't pregenerated and that lack of pregeneration impacts play in...

Yea. I think the keyword there is 'in that moment'. Though I do think it's interesting that it still occurs for the DM.

the difference is that in the trad example the cook's existence does not hinge on a failed roll, they exist in the house regardless, and...

Fair enough. But man I struggle with the term color as it's been used in this thread. The NPC is there or they aren't, and that matters...

They should be encountered in the fiction. Then a skilled thief can use their stealth and misdirection to avoid them. "You're level 4...