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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8648374" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>I couldn't say about your example as I know nothing of the game and what having a Nazgul implies. Now, depending on the sort of play you are engaging in, unrevealed elements of the fiction may or may not be constraining on the GM. In classic D&amp;D they ARE, the referee as D&amp;D calls it, is pretty much obliged to reveal his map and key as written to the players when they fulfill the criteria required to achieve uncovering it (granting that these criteria may sometimes be determined on the fly by said referee, but there's always a strong principle of doing so in a neutral way that is hopefully intelligible to the players and can inform their decisions). In a 2e or 5e game, the GM IMHO is not at all constrained to disclose anything, she can decide the clue is not in the drawer even though the module says it is, simply because in her opinion it will make a better story!</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 8648374, member: 82106"] I couldn't say about your example as I know nothing of the game and what having a Nazgul implies. Now, depending on the sort of play you are engaging in, unrevealed elements of the fiction may or may not be constraining on the GM. In classic D&D they ARE, the referee as D&D calls it, is pretty much obliged to reveal his map and key as written to the players when they fulfill the criteria required to achieve uncovering it (granting that these criteria may sometimes be determined on the fly by said referee, but there's always a strong principle of doing so in a neutral way that is hopefully intelligible to the players and can inform their decisions). In a 2e or 5e game, the GM IMHO is not at all constrained to disclose anything, she can decide the clue is not in the drawer even though the module says it is, simply because in her opinion it will make a better story! [/QUOTE]

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