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Hang on a tick though. I was just told that this is not a sandbox. This is, more or less, proceedurally generated content. Thus, it's...

that is exactly what the original post was, my question was how to find out the disposition of the current guard though, not how to find...

That’s why I think it makes sense to be very aware of these decisions… because doing so is narrowing paths. Again, it may be fine from...

I’ve gone back to Gygax’s Player’s Handbook (1978), specifically the section titled "Successful Adventures." While I do not claim that...

so tell them / show them. I am not disagreeing with that

In my previous replies, I’ve established that: NPC behavior is rooted in setting logic and plausible motivation, not arbitrary...

Why? First edition was a disorganized and sometimes opaque mess. It needed to be reorganized, made clearer, and cleaned up. While I...

without it they would have closed their doors years earlier, so I do not see it as a bad decision. Their problem was bad management, not...

Yeah. My point is more that if the NPCs are fixed and details are known, the players have ways to learn about them.

I am disagreeing that the DM deciding this has to mean that we get a series of unpredictable, unforeseeable, chaotic results because the...

could work, but is not really the same thing, ie you did not learn about this particular guard unless he happens to be McBribe

probably because this can lead to a never-ending stream of ‘but what ifs’, see the discussion around the criminal background

I am just there to have fun and play a game. I am not going to have a struggle session over agency or worry about railroading unless I...

There is also magic to consider, everything from pacts to a monthly Zone of Truth session may not be uncommon. I've also had players try...

at least theoretically, yes, how would you figure out how corruptible a guard is without trying to bribe them?