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<blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 8649594" data-attributes="member: 71699"><p>I feel that, too. It seems right to me to take player choices, and their descriptions and efforts to constrain or lock in consequences, into account. Frex, take the classic question - is the dirt in the safe? I want player to stitch me up as a DM... make it so I can't deliver a gotcha without being a spoilsport. There are a million ways to do that, but a few include</p><ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Draw attention to their choices in chargen or advancement (as you point out)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Describe in a way that rules out some kinds of consequences, and rules in others (e.g. &quot;I search the desk drawers first, then turn to the safe&quot; rules out the possibility the dirt is in the desk drawers.)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Play out preparation like pressing lackeys for the location of the dirt (e.g. &quot;The accountant puts the books every night in the safe: they know its contents. Let's find out if they have any peccadillos we can lean on...&quot;)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Invest resources like spell slots and classs feature uses (&quot;...or maybe they'll take a bribe?&quot;)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">etc</li>
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[QUOTE="clearstream, post: 8649594, member: 71699"] I feel that, too. It seems right to me to take player choices, and their descriptions and efforts to constrain or lock in consequences, into account. Frex, take the classic question - is the dirt in the safe? I want player to stitch me up as a DM... make it so I can't deliver a gotcha without being a spoilsport. There are a million ways to do that, but a few include [LIST] [*]Draw attention to their choices in chargen or advancement (as you point out) [*]Describe in a way that rules out some kinds of consequences, and rules in others (e.g. "I search the desk drawers first, then turn to the safe" rules out the possibility the dirt is in the desk drawers.) [*]Play out preparation like pressing lackeys for the location of the dirt (e.g. "The accountant puts the books every night in the safe: they know its contents. Let's find out if they have any peccadillos we can lean on...") [*]Invest resources like spell slots and classs feature uses ("...or maybe they'll take a bribe?") [*]etc [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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