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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9480747" data-attributes="member: 42582">No I'm not. I'm not the person who raised the prospect of a two-day adjustment and who suggested it would actually matter.In this scenario that is of your creation (not mine), you have decided to adjust all the dates, to incorporate two days of personnel hiring. It's established in the fiction that your PC spoke to the King N days after leaving town. If the date of leaving town is adjusted by two days, than N days later is also going to be adjusted by two days.If you insist that the date on which the King is killed is not going to be adjusted by two days, then you're stuck with contradiction - the King was dead when the PCs spoke to him! So either we can all pretend that didn't happen, or the GM can come up with some idea that the PCs really spoke to the King's ghost, or everyone can agree that the date of the King's death is the day after he spoke to the PCs, just as everyone agreed it was before-hand. I mean, it's not as if the calendar date is much more than somewhat arbitrary colour.Why would you adjust dates for some events, and not others, in a way that makes everything confused and incoherent? I don't get it. So no, it's not really any clearer to me what is supposed to be going on here. I mean, is this a thing that has actually happened in your play? The second of the above quotes implies that it hasn't.In any event, I don't understand why this imaginary fiasco, that comes about because of some weird decision to adjust half the dates in the campaign without adjusting the others, has anything to do with my post that it was ostensibly a response to:I didn't say anything about adjusting timelines, either in whole or in part. I certainly didn't say anything about ret-cons. I talked about adding new bits of fiction - something that happens routinely in RPGing that is anything less than a total railroad.I don't understand why you think your example of weird mis-play - which has never actually happened? - has any bearing on the issue I was posting about, which is talking about the relative simplicity of doing a thing that GMs do all the time: introduce new NPCs, introduce new elements of setting and situation backstory, etc.</blockquote>

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