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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9712493" data-attributes="member: 29398">If the runes have no meaning when the PCs see them (assuming they either fail or never try to read them), what do they say if-when the NPC baddies secretly following the party try to read them?I can think of situations where the pre-determination of the runes' message could make a pretty big difference.  The baddies succeed in reading the runes wehere the PCs failed, then they assume the PCs also read them and expect the PCs to be heading out of the dungeon.  Baddies take a shortcut to cut the PCs off, and there's no PCs because, having failed to read the runes, they went another way and thus unintentionally shook off their pursuers.But if the runes are still in Schroedinger state when the baddies try to read them and succeed, how on earth do you determine what they say and, in extension, what the baddies do next?</blockquote>