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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imaro" data-source="post: 5764156" data-attributes="member: 48965">No, IMO, it's not. It's the same encounter but where the DM determined that the PC's are the ones who decide to interact or not to interact with the guards. Whether through this interaction the guards become future contacts and allies, hindrances and antagonists, or fade into the background is emergent in play through the choices of the PC's. and note this in no way precludes the PC's from moving the encounter along by choosing not to fully engage the guards.   Well first, pre-supposing there is a "plot" is wrong, not everyone plays this way. Second, since none of the PC's actions are pre-determined whether they make friends with the guards or piss them off could come back to either help them or hinder them in the future. Finally it could just be roleplaying an opportunity for everyone to more directly establish their character through interaction with NPC's. So I'm really not understanding this issue where the guards have to be part of some pre-constructed plot or pre-determined by the DM as an information source in order to be useful or relevant to the players and/or the game in general?</blockquote>