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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 8698451" data-attributes="member: 7025508">It is not possible to do that! It is always an illusion to some degree. And everyone knows that! Like your bizarre objection to my market example. You don't actually track timetable of literally everything happening in the world in the off-chance the PC happen to be around when the timer for an interesting thing comes up. No one does that. Players perfectly understand that sometimes the GM just has interesting stuff happen in place and time of their choosing because they want to put that content in the game.These sort of 'deceptions' are merely about immersion, getting the contrivances of a game to seem like a real world and get the payers to buy into that. Look mate. It is not hard, but it also is not hard for the GM to ask &quot;I sometimes roll some dice and let them decide the result, is that cool?&quot; but the fact remains that by the rules they're already empowered to do this. I will honestly tell you that you have a have unusually strong personal hang-up about this; this is no common. People generally don't care about incidental low-key illusionism. There are million things the GM is allowed to do that might still bother someone, and discussing things is good idea, but frankly, you're being both entitled and judgemental by elevating your personal preferences on some special pedestal.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crimson Longinus, post: 8698451, member: 7025508"] It is not possible to do that! It is always an illusion to some degree. And everyone knows that! Like your bizarre objection to my market example. You don't actually track timetable of literally everything happening in the world in the off-chance the PC happen to be around when the timer for an interesting thing comes up. No one does that. Players perfectly understand that sometimes the GM just has interesting stuff happen in place and time of their choosing because they want to put that content in the game. These sort of 'deceptions' are merely about immersion, getting the contrivances of a game to seem like a real world and get the payers to buy into that. Look mate. It is not hard, but it also is not hard for the GM to ask "I sometimes roll some dice and let them decide the result, is that cool?" but the fact remains that by the rules they're already empowered to do this. I will honestly tell you that you have a have unusually strong personal hang-up about this; this is no common. People generally don't care about incidental low-key illusionism. There are million things the GM is allowed to do that might still bother someone, and discussing things is good idea, but frankly, you're being both entitled and judgemental by elevating your personal preferences on some special pedestal. [/QUOTE]

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