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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Harzel" data-source="post: 7157015" data-attributes="member: 6857506">Well, since you brought it up, there are three things that confuse me about what you have said - two major, one minor.<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">As [MENTION=29398]Lanefan[/MENTION] noted, you seem to be conflating sandbox-vs.-railroad with degree of DM improv.  While they are certainly not unrelated, they are also certainly not the same thing.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">On its own, the desire to not have the DM "decide what's behind the door once they get there" sounds like an abstract and not very well grounded aesthetic consideration.  If the decision that the DM makes when you open the door is the same as (or even roughly equivalent to) what she would have decided earlier, why is that a problem?  And if it is a problem, what is the acceptable "earlier"?  Before the session? Yesterday?  Last week?  But in the context of some of your other comments, it seems like timing might really be a proxy for something else.  That is, you and your players are perhaps thinking that if the DM makes the decision about what is behind the door "earlier", then something bad will be avoided - but what?  From your previous comments, it seems like it might be some sort of malfeasance on the part of the DM, but I'm still not sure what it is you would be worried about.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">A lesser issue, but does "My players like to know that what is behind the door was there yesterday" mean that the world has to be quite static, or am I just reading that too literally?  Is it acceptable for what is behind the door to be affected by what they did in the room they are in, or even by when or how they open the door?  Perhaps only ok if it depends on a rule that is codified and involves no DM judgement?  Seems a bit limiting to me.</li> </ol></blockquote>

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