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Oh but think of the story they're creating! ;)

It computes for us, because we don't control much of the real world, very often including who might be behind a door we are going to...

okay i missed that the example was a random house they were trying to rob, but that doesn't actually significantly change the point i...

There's been a long-running argument that principled restrictions on the GM's power don't count unless you can look them up and cite...

This is where playstyle and preference make all the difference. My setting actually has billions of NPCs that exist within it. This...

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...