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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Emerikol" data-source="post: 9478605" data-attributes="member: 6698278">Your examples seem a bit strained to me.  And from a PC perspective, the DM very well could say they are blind.  Whose to say some enemy caster didn't cast blindness?  Now a DM that just went around making things up all the time is going to be a poor DM but he could do that.  It is within his rights as DM.As for wandering monsters, the DM if a good one will be consistent but I don't see ever an obligation for a DM to roll for a wandering monster.  He could roll.  He could just drop some monsters.  He could just not do anything.  The NPCs are controlled by the DM.  I hope as DM he has reasons for why any one of those things happening.  Well we lived in different worlds then.  Now I agree a DM that just went crazy and made up crap left and right wouldn't stay DM for long if I were a PC.  But at any given moment can the DM do something?  Absolutely.   He is not bound.There are many things I'd say are expectations.  All of those things you mentioned are likely as a whole expectations.  Consistency, depth, fairness.  As PC's I think those are reasonable expectations.  I don't ever see a rule containing a DM.  I just see the PCs deciding they don't want what that DM is offering.</blockquote>