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Message: <blockquote data-quote="soviet" data-source="post: 9510768" data-attributes="member: 6925338">Is that because if there was a band or music you would have said so, therefore if you haven't said so it definitely doesn't exist (either because it's in your prep or because you've committed to a particular vision of the bar in your head already? What if you simply didn't consider whether or not a band could be there? Does the player making the assumption there's a band and asking for a tune from them constitute such an overstep that you automatically say there isn't one? If the player asked instead, might the result be different?It just seems to me that 'a band exists and is playing' is a very plausible assumption Yes there might be some bars where music is banned, or looked down on, etc. But generally if I was GMing, even in a very traditional game, I would think i) this is a very plausible assumption the player has made, maybe other players have also made it, and it will hurt their immersion to say no, and ii) the player quite likely has a cool moment or strategy they are hoping to set up here. I would either allow it or at the least I would assign it a % chance of the band existing.   I'm not sure what's gained by always saying no to this.</blockquote>