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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7582089" data-attributes="member: 42582">To me this all seems very obvious. Which is not to criticise you for posting it (on the contrary - XP given!) but rather to say that it's odd to me that this needs spelling out in such detail.I mean, the very first time a wandering monster appeared from around a corner that the PCs had themseles just walked around, the need to fit newly-authored elements into the established fiction arose. And it doesn't generally seem to have caused many crises.For someone who purports to hate metagaming, you sure do seem to do a lot of it!Sure, had the authors of the fiction at T1 known that X was coming along at T2, they might have authored a different F. Just like, had Stan Lee invented Mysterio earlier, he might have used Mysterio rather than Sand Man (? am I remembering right?) as one of Spidey's first villains. Likewise, had the players or GM thought of X back at T1, they might have gone on to produce a different FF.But so what? Those are all facts about how the game might have unfolded at the table - ie facts about authorship. It's all metagame speculation. The possibility that someone might have written a different FF is not a fact about the gameworld itself. FF is what it is. And X is what it is. So as far as the shared fiction is concerned, we already know that FF unfolded as it did despite X. There're almost always many readily available Rs that will explain how this is so - pick one!</blockquote>

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