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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7732074" data-attributes="member: 29398">Or, conversely, it's secret from everyone.Sorry, never heard of 'im.Which is fine going forward.But you also have to look backward, and here's where problems arise; as any time an important new element is introduced out of nothing that element immediately becomes part of the game world not just now but in the past as well.&nbsp; Where the inconsistency comes in is whether anything would have or could have been done differently had that element been in place sooner even if nobody except the DM knew about it; that's the sort of thing I'll pick up on as a player, and seriously squawk about.You want to jump your 100-h.p. fighter off a cliff onto jagged rocks below?&nbsp; OK, I won't veto your action - but I'll veto your survival at the bottom (and probably mention this while you're still at the top).There's going to be fishing villages somewhere. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; But if the player wants their PC to come from a fishing village where the population is made up mostly of alien survivors of a crashed spaceship...no.&nbsp; Not happening.&nbsp; Ditto for coming from a foresters' village in an area where there's no trees...Lanefan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7732074, member: 29398"] Or, conversely, it's secret from everyone. Sorry, never heard of 'im. Which is fine going forward. But you also have to look backward, and here's where problems arise; as any time an important new element is introduced out of nothing that element immediately becomes part of the game world not just now but in the past as well. Where the inconsistency comes in is whether anything would have or could have been done differently had that element been in place sooner even if nobody except the DM knew about it; that's the sort of thing I'll pick up on as a player, and seriously squawk about. You want to jump your 100-h.p. fighter off a cliff onto jagged rocks below? OK, I won't veto your action - but I'll veto your survival at the bottom (and probably mention this while you're still at the top). There's going to be fishing villages somewhere. :) But if the player wants their PC to come from a fishing village where the population is made up mostly of alien survivors of a crashed spaceship...no. Not happening. Ditto for coming from a foresters' village in an area where there's no trees... Lanefan [/QUOTE]

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