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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7311747" data-attributes="member: 42582">I don't the show, and don't know what genre you have in mind. The Traveller game I'm running is pretty straightforward moderately non-gonzo sci fi.Two things.One, it is the planning that is causing the inconsistency - ie you already have all this pre-planned "lore of the game" that the GM is not on top of; and you also have this player-authored backstory that the GM is not on top of.So what your example shows is that if the GM commits to the (ingame) truth of a whole lot of stuff that s/he is not across, then s/he might carelessly contradict it. Which seems obvious but irrelevant to the merits of improvisation.In my Traveller game, before the fourth session I made a list of all the backstory that had been established over the prior three sessions:There actually was a bit more backstory than that - individual NPC backgrounds were noted with the NPC statblocks - but all-in-all that's not too much to keep track of. Contradiction is not that likely.Second, if the Emperor travelled through a certain region where a PC who longed to see the Emperor never got the chance to do so, there could be any number of explanations: the PC was on holiday; the PC was sick; the PC got caught in a traffic jam; etc. It doesn't seem that big a deal to me.</blockquote>