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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9470462" data-attributes="member: 42582">I thought I'd post an example of an actual edit in play. (As opposed to a GM reworking their material in their own head or notes; or adding new material that sheds light on, or changes, the significance of earlier material.)In the session of Torchbearer 2e that I GMed yesterday, the PC Telemere went to the tavern during the town phase. I rolled on the tavern rumours table (Scholar's Guide p 298), and got a 7:Your friend, bedraggled and disheveled from the road, bursts into the tavern with an incredible tale to tell.The complicating factor, for this result, is that this PC has no friends - he is a loner with an enemy (his brother) and no friends either as part of initial build, or established in play.So at first I decided that a mostly innocuous rival - <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/torchbearer-2e-actual-play-of-this-awesome-system.691233/post-9075201" target="_blank">the bandit Turner</a> - had turned up, and I said as much. And then, as I was thinking it through a bit more and trying to decide on some incredible tale for Turner to tell, I announced that I was changing that - in fact the bedraggled and dishevelled friend was Korvin, another PC but one whose player was not present, who came into the tavern. The change worked better, both because Korvin is something of a friend of Telemere, and because I knew what tale Korvin would tell: a tale about the river pirates getting ready to assault the moathouse, in violation of their arrangement with Lareth the Beautiful.That was a literal edit undertaken at the table. It went fine, but I wouldn't like to do too much of it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 9470462, member: 42582"] I thought I'd post an example of an actual edit in play. (As opposed to a GM reworking their material in their own head or notes; or adding new material that sheds light on, or changes, the significance of earlier material.) In the session of Torchbearer 2e that I GMed yesterday, the PC Telemere went to the tavern during the town phase. I rolled on the tavern rumours table (Scholar's Guide p 298), and got a 7: [indent]Your friend, bedraggled and disheveled from the road, bursts into the tavern with an incredible tale to tell.[/indent] The complicating factor, for this result, is that this PC has no friends - he is a loner with an enemy (his brother) and no friends either as part of initial build, or established in play. So at first I decided that a mostly innocuous rival - [url=https://www.enworld.org/threads/torchbearer-2e-actual-play-of-this-awesome-system.691233/post-9075201]the bandit Turner[/url] - had turned up, and I said as much. And then, as I was thinking it through a bit more and trying to decide on some incredible tale for Turner to tell, I announced that I was changing that - in fact the bedraggled and dishevelled friend was Korvin, another PC but one whose player was not present, who came into the tavern. The change worked better, both because Korvin is something of a friend of Telemere, and because I knew what tale Korvin would tell: a tale about the river pirates getting ready to assault the moathouse, in violation of their arrangement with Lareth the Beautiful. That was a literal edit undertaken at the table. It went fine, but I wouldn't like to do too much of it. [/QUOTE]

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