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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7058364" data-attributes="member: 29398">And so to finish my thoughts on post 328...And Great Expectations probably had a rough storyboard of a plot before Dickens sat down and fleshed it all out into the finished prose, for all we know.  That he came up with two different endings isn't relevant, really.And in an RPG, if there's to be a mystery with clues etc. those clues have to come from somewhere; and that somewhere is by default the DM (though a player can author a mystery of her own, I've seen it done).  But there's not much of a mystery if everyone knows the secrets, or the answer.Mystery is fun.  Mystery is therefore good.Again, as it turns out there was no prior interaction with the brother there's no cost.I haven't; and won't due to there having been no prior interaction.  I was assuming that there had been, and if so the inconsistency would have come from whatever the brother did/said at the time not being filtered through his evilness.Isn't that part of the mystery, though: the not knowing everything? (or, in some cases, not knowing anything)Which tells me one of several things:1. You've been amazingly lucky, or2. You and-or your players are either meticulous note-takers or have memories that would put an elephant to shame, or3. Your campaigns are very short (it's easier to remember something for 6 months real-time than it is for 5 years), or4. You and your players are simply willing to live with a certain amount of internal inconsistency (border to be determined) just to keep things going.Lan-"memory of a jellyfish"-efan</blockquote>

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