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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 6566960" data-attributes="member: 6775031">Sounds good to me! If the DM decides to create a world with giants rather than orcs, and there's an in-game reason for there to be giants rather than orcs, then that's not meta-game.A meta-game decision would be if the DM hadn't decided whether there were giants or orcs in a particular region, but made the decision based on what level the party was when they got there. That seems more like an RP thing, and you don't need random tables in order to RP. One of the jobs of the DM is to play NPCs, tracking their activities and motivations (individually, for important ones, and collectively for the masses).A friendly NPC turns up if an appropriate one exists and has a reason to do so. Is there a particular member of the nobility who is in need of your services? Are you a hero of the people, such that they might band together to help you in your time of need (by hiring a mercenary, I suppose, in this case)? These are things that the DM should already know. It shouldn't even require much consideration, because most of the time it should be obvious (to the DM).</blockquote>