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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8431016" data-attributes="member: 42582">All the examples like that that I'm familiar with are provided by people like you who have no specific RPGs in mind and are saying they don't do it and/or don't like it.As [USER=71235]@niklinna[/USER] and I already discussed upthread, Apocalypse World has no such mechanics, despite people who are unfamiliar with it frequently asserting that it does. What it does have is an expectation of asking questions and building on the answers, but (i) this can be done in D&D (see eg the discussion in the 4e DMG2 of comparable techniques) and (ii) this is quite different from a player just stipulating that a blacksmith is present.In Classic Traveller a player can declare a Streetwise check to meet up with a useful contact, supplier etc - but this requires a roll to be made; it is not fiat. Burning Wheel has mechanics comparable to Classic Traveller.In Marvel Heroic RP, a player can spend a resource (under some constraints as to timing) to establish a contact, which then (i) opens up fictional positioning and (ii) provides a bonus die to action resolution. There is no unlimited fiat.There's a reason that - as far as I know - no RPG gives players unlimited authority over backstory and situation: namely, because that significantly, perhaps completely, removes challenge and antagonism.</blockquote>