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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prabe" data-source="post: 7976529" data-attributes="member: 7016699">The only thing/s I have control of are things the PCs aren't interacting with, and I have more control over things they haven't interacted with yet than over things they have.In practice, I'm far more likely to establish where the widget isn't than where it is, and it's possible hsading to likely that things will arise in play that change my thinking at least about how the PCs can find the widget.I feel as though the significant things that happen in the fiction are the things the PCs do. What I do as a DM is to establish the in-fiction framework in which the PCs do those significant things. If the PCs end up at Place Z looking for a widget because someone lied to them and the PCs believed it, that seems like a consequence of play and not necessarily something entirely in the DM's control. It seems reasonable to me that whatever the consequences would be of not finding the widget where they expected to find it would be established in-fiction before the PCs searched.On some level this is probably right, given that D&D is so combat-oriented, but I think the players/characters have some blame to shoulder, as well.</blockquote>