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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9623941" data-attributes="member: 42582">100% this. That's why I've been disagreeing with [USER=6790260]@EzekielRaiden[/USER]'s assertion that there must be pre-authorship of the answer by the GM, or else it's either performing detection or writing a detective story.As best I can tell, you're trying to make a point here about police procedures.All I've said about actual police is that, to the best of my knowledge, they don't train detectives by playing CoC scenarios.Other than that, I'm talking about RPGing.You appear to have completely misunderstood Vincent Baker's blog.He is contrasting "vigorous creative agreement" - ie freeform RPGing - with the role of rules in a RPG. And he points out that his very strongly preferred function for rule is to provide an alternative to vigorous creative agreement, by bringing into the fiction things that no one at the table (not even the GM) would choose to bring in.The reason I pointed to the blog is to show that you are wrong to assume that the only two alternatives are collective authorship ("vigorous creative agreement", aka "writers' room") or else GM pre-authorship.</blockquote>