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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 2453017" data-attributes="member: 812">Man, do I hate that.No, not 19th century America.But those histories that DMs hand out that "explain" their whole world and tell you what actually happened. Grrrr.I find that determining what "actually" happened is only rarely as useful as determining what NPC X THINKS happened. My players go completely bananas trying to speculate how some ancient poem's description of what happened when Suelekar Ben Azan built Tabbadur (it describes a long and bloody last stand battle with shivered spears and mocking serpents) compares to what the Blood Council is telling them Tabbadur is (a trans-dimensional prison for an insane goddess) and do the serpents represent the goddess' mortal henchmen, or are they the spells that were cast to create the prison, or is the poem just a bunch of hooey written five hundred years after the event?The beautiful thing is, I don't even have to decide.</blockquote>