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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 7941357" data-attributes="member: 6785785">Well, in a case where the drives and goals and state of mind of the brother are all created by the GM, I don't see how you can do anything  but force it, right? Perhaps the player has offered some bit of motivation or other detail for the brother as part of their backstory. "My brother got mixed up with the wrong crowd and left the farm..." or similar. In that case, it may help determine what's happened. But it's all fiction. It can't be real.So in the first paragraph, you apply the kind of reasoning that I think we would all try and follow to some extent when determining this kind of stuff. Where has the brother been, what's he thinking, what resources does he have at his disposal to enable his travel, etc. I think this is generally the approach we would all take, Then in the second paragraph you essentially point out that all those details can be anything we want, so we can make anything we want happen, and we can justify it in any way.</blockquote>