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"Balancing encounters a touch" by adding additional foes is exactly "spawning in" enemies. If it's being done to "balance" the...

Like I said, it's a distinction without meaning. The DM is changing/adding/subtracting things from the setting. We're all doing it for...

That's been my point all the way along though. I'm not the one insisting that setting changes cannot be done. Of course they are done...

I guess, at the end of the day, I find the distinction between "improvise when things go an unexpected direction" and "modify scenarios...

Because we weren't specifically using the term "in flux." Obviously.

With all respect, when the opposition and the referee are the same person, "fairness" should not have been on the list of qualities you...

Oh, I don't know. Could be the endless complaints about adding in a cook to a kitchen. 🤷 Or maybe the endless complaints about...

And, frankly, again, there's a million ways to bias an encounter. Just off the top of my head: Do monsters "focus fire" - each...

That's the point though. The disappearance of the elves is an established fact of the setting. Fair enough. It's not in flux. It's a...

It might not be irrational or hypocritical, but, it is pretty thin. After all, it's not like the DM is asking permission beforehand. I...

If you think it's cool and fine and perfectly above-board to change the roll, then do in the open, in full view of everyone at the...

I suppose. I think that answer's a bit convenient though. "Everything is in flux, except for the things I don't like to be in flux" is...

See, on the issue of fudging - it's more nuanced than simply changing die rolls. I mean, I've been playing online with VTT's for about...

Heh. Funny how things are "in flux" before initiative is rolled, but, changing setting elements is off limits. How can things be in...

I think the thing that makes Lanefan's campaign a notable outlier is not being a sandbox, but the length-of-run.