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<blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 8720295" data-attributes="member: 6787503">In context, I was responding to a statement that the DM having unilateral control over the fiction is &quot;playing Dungeons &amp; Dragons&quot;. I don't think it's an exaggeration at all to say that just sounds like the DM telling a story. Why is that controversial?I don't think that's been demonstrated at all and don't see why it should be counterintuitive to D&amp;D players. The fantastical tradition has its share of invisible characters who interfere with other characters without detection. While invisible, Doctor Faustus, in Christopher Marlowe's play, steals the Pope's meat and wine and even strikes him without his location becoming known. Likewise, in The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz by Jules Verne, the titular character disrupts a wedding party by singing and causing the brides wreath to appear to levitate, all without revealing his location. Surely such fiction is not outside the genre constraints that define what sort of occurrences are acceptable in many games of D&amp;D!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hriston, post: 8720295, member: 6787503"] In context, I was responding to a statement that the DM having unilateral control over the fiction is "playing Dungeons & Dragons". I don't think it's an exaggeration at all to say that just sounds like the DM telling a story. Why is that controversial? I don't think that's been demonstrated at all and don't see why it should be counterintuitive to D&D players. The fantastical tradition has its share of invisible characters who interfere with other characters without detection. While invisible, Doctor Faustus, in Christopher Marlowe's play, steals the Pope's meat and wine and even strikes him without his location becoming known. Likewise, in [I]The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz[/I][B][I] [/I][/B]by Jules Verne, the titular character disrupts a wedding party by singing and causing the brides wreath to appear to levitate, all without revealing his location. Surely such fiction is not outside the genre constraints that define what sort of occurrences are acceptable in many games of D&D! [/QUOTE]

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