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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6194511" data-attributes="member: 177">Um, dude?  How about how all the adventure and encounter design information being in the Dungeon Master's Guide, and not in the Player's Handbook?  The implications of that are terribly strong, sir.You will probably spin a line of how adventure and encounter design are not the same as choosing antagonists - and you'd have half a point.  But the other half still notes that it is the GM who actually puts the monsters and NPCs in play.  The players get to offer suggestions as to what elements of the game world they want to engage, but the PHB gives *NO* information or mechanics for the players to outright dictate those things in play.  Players don't get to say, "There is an orc there, I attack it!"I actually expect someone will bring up some Gygaxian prose about how the GM sets things up.  But, even if they didn't, all that means is that you have a strictly logical argument that it isn't explicitly prescribed by the rules.  Note how a logical argument is not the same as a *reasonable* argument.  Nitpicking logic and $3 will get you a cup of coffee...Wrong.  The GM decides who is at the location the PCs go to.   The players don't get to place the NPCs.  So the GM actually decides who is met at that location.</blockquote>