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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 6198064" data-attributes="member: 17106">I'm talking about what you call a Schroedinger's NPC. A game element that may or may not exist.In my approach, it's clear that said character exists or does not exist at the DM's pleasure and behaves as the DM decides. It's clear that the player has no authority to dictate anything outside of his own character's decision-making.Once you deviate from that, it's unclear how much the player can dictate. If a player wants to accomplish a particular goal, who decides the circumstances around that goal? I can't tell.Sure. That's the beauty of d20. You can hack it to do all kinds of things.But if you do that, you're responsible for the consequences. In reference to what was once the topic of this thread, if you give spellcasters the ability to dictate these kinds of terms, and don't give it to the rest of the characters, it may some problems.</blockquote>