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<blockquote data-quote="Andvari" data-source="post: 8830043" data-attributes="member: 7036523">I think there's also a difference between &quot;having to justify&quot; and &quot;needing to justify.&quot; Most of the time I don't feel the need to justify any weird abilities NPCs might have, because it's not a question that's being raised. So spending time on it is a wasted effort 90% of the time. But I recall a few instances where a player started inquiring and I had to come up with a plausible explanation, or at least had to think about it. Though the players never pursued it further than that.So a lot of weird abilities might theoretically be available to PCs, where in practice they aren't going to pursue it. Such as going off on a potentially long side quest not relevant to the adventure itself might not be what the other players or the DM are interested in. So often perhaps it's more of presenting the idea that some of these strange things could in fact be done by a PC under the right circumstances. But this doesn't entail a need to make rules for it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Andvari, post: 8830043, member: 7036523"] I think there's also a difference between "having to justify" and "needing to justify." Most of the time I don't feel the need to justify any weird abilities NPCs might have, because it's not a question that's being raised. So spending time on it is a wasted effort 90% of the time. But I recall a few instances where a player started inquiring and I had to come up with a plausible explanation, or at least had to think about it. Though the players never pursued it further than that. So a lot of weird abilities might theoretically be available to PCs, where in practice they aren't going to pursue it. Such as going off on a potentially long side quest not relevant to the adventure itself might not be what the other players or the DM are interested in. So often perhaps it's more of presenting the idea that some of these strange things could in fact be done by a PC under the right circumstances. But this doesn't entail a need to make rules for it. [/QUOTE]

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