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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8600853" data-attributes="member: 42582">Yes, I understand this. I posted the same thing upthread:And I'm still not seeing why my suggested solution won't work - if the PCs "need" to meet the sage, in order to get the quest, or the maguffin, or (as in the example I posted) the information about the medusa, why can the GM not just have the sage turn up? You are positing an approach to the player where the GM has a very large degree of control over both backstory and framing. Why can the GM not use that control to frame a scene in which the sage is present with the PCs. I gave a few examples upthread:This is an example of what I described as blocking the action declaration. I still don't understand what advantage it offers over allowing the player to express their conception of their scholarly Draconic-reading relative, and introducing the sage via the exercise of GM power to frame the scene in question.Is the answer that the module only has a description for an encounter with the sage at the latter's distant hermitage, and so putting the sage somewhere else is too great a burden on the GM's capacity to manage the fiction?</blockquote>