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But they didn't. This is already an event that has happenned and int happenned on specific date, intependently from the PCs and unrelated to them. Why should it move just because players want to retcon two days into their journey?

I will tell you this - I've played some GTA in my life and I know, that despite being a player who focuses on the narrative and story of the games, GTA very easily incentivizes you to go on a rampage by the fact you can go slaughter everyone on the street and get freaking army after you...and...

Except there is no in-universe reason why should the assassination, which was in no way related to the PC's actions, be moved. This is not a video game where events occur when players trigger a checkpoint, we are trying to create an illusion of a living and breatihng world. It may not be an...

No, I do not have a problem with a player who wants to do both (i) and (ii). I do have a problem with a player who wants to avoid consequences of (ii) impating their (i) and roleplay opportunitties that could grow from it. The Bastion rules. Because the Bastion rules reassure them they will...

Because, in response to my concerns, people started making assumptions about my table and that pissed me off

Again, just because a rule doesn't affect me personally does not mean I'm not allowed to point problems with i or be concerned about the direction, said rule indicates the game is going.

Strongholds & Followers by MCDM publishing, you're welcome.

I spent entire thread explaining why I think these rules will make DM's life harder, if they aren't there to oitright supplant us entierly. Furthermore, I do not consider "yes, and" a sacred rule to begin with, merely one option on a spectrum beginning at "yes, and", going through "yes", "yes...

But if they do cause problems for players, we had multiple people here saying that is entierly failt of pkayers or the gm. This doublethink is shielding rules from all criticism and shifts the blame, which is frustrating.

The players went to meet the king on their own, then in a completely unrelated to them event he got killed. The event of his assassination should, logically, still occur on the same day because it is not affected by their actions. By retconning them to move out two days later, the event that...

Still doesn't mean the rules are beyond criticism for allowing the problem in the first place.

Again with the catch-22. If it happenned at someone's table, then it's fault of the individual, and not the rules that allowed it. If it didn't hapenned at someone's table, then it means it won't happen and rules are fine. It's a deflection from criticism. Just because I didn't personally had my...

Ad hominem won't take you far, but let me rephrase my point: GMs do not roll on these tables. If they use these tables at all, they preselect the result and adjust it to be able to prepare the encounter early because rolling during the game may result in wasted time to try to prepare an...

you mean that thing nobody uses anymore?

I'm going to tackle this part first because it is the only one with an actual substance, instead of insults. If something is not added by the player to the setting, it just doesn't exist. If player adds something but then proclaims it is their thing and I am not allowed to touch it in any way...

it is certainly a prick move to do it without prior discussion and/or at a table that already has established DM-party dynamics and lines where one's responsibility begins or ends.

You're trying to reduce my argument to personal problem with my group and get mad when I ask you to stop insulting my players. You contrived for yourself a perfect way to not actually engage with an argument. If the opposition uses personal examples, this is clearly their individual prblem and...

What kind of lack of logic is this?Do you realize how silly it is to take a single incident and make it the default? It's called paranoia. If anything, I would argue a single treacherous NPC ensures we won't see another one in this campaign as no good DM just repeat their tricks. Have you...

Go to reddit and look up the sub RG Horror Stories and read up some of stories of problem players at the table. Why aren't you selfish? Why do you care about problems of other people? What is this backwards kind of logic? Am I talking with Ronald Reagan or something? I see a problem but...

By this logic every rpg is beyond criticsm because we can just point at the rule zero and trust GM will adjucate correctly 100% of times. Which I think we can all agree nobody actually seriously beleives. There is at least one time in comics where Alfred quits. I recall somewhere after...