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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8221825" data-attributes="member: 29398">That statement right there is where a lot of these discussions run hard aground.The point in a prepped-style game is that - in the minds of both the players and the DM - what's beyond the hill does already exist, and while whatever's there hasn't been seen yet by the PCs it has been seen by all sorts of other inhabitants of the setting*.  Moreover, it would have continued existing even if the PCs never looked that way.* - maybe even including some inhabitants that don't yet realize they're PCs! (in meta-terms, player-characters brought in later in the campaign that at this point haven't been rolled up yet)</blockquote>