NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9709296" data-attributes="member: 29398">My world's notes are online here if you want to check them over:[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.friendsofgravity.com/games/decast/world.html[/URL]There's loads of info there, and I'd say most of it's at least vaguely coherent with itself, but were you to ask me what specific thought processes led me to come up with any specific detail there's a better-than-even chance the answer will consist of a shrug, either because I don't remember (most of this was done 17-ish years ago) or never had any process in the first place other than dreaming it up out of nothing as I went along.Well, they do keep coming back for more every week, which tells me something. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Innocent until proven guilty, says I; and in this case guilt can only be proven in hindsight if-when things go off the cliff.If I screw up then I screw up, and I'll cop to it if-when either a) I realize on my own that I've screwed up or b) someone calls me on it.  A relatively trivial example from a month or so back: the party found a magic item with a maker's mark on it; the mark was of someone known to some of the PCs as a big-time artificer active for the last 4 centuries or so (he's a lich), but I narrated the item as being about 700 years old as for in-game reasons it had to be that old: nobody had been in that room since then.  Oops.I realized this mistake after the session, and next session had to correct myself.But I'm not going to reveal in-game secrets just to satisfy someone's concern about perceived unfairness in the moment, and most (as in, almost all) such situations are due to as-yet-unrevealed in-game secrets.</blockquote>

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