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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FrozenNorth" data-source="post: 9079017" data-attributes="member: 7020832">I think the word “willy-nilly” is doing a lot of lifting in that sentence.  As other posters have indicated, no RPGs exist that give players unlimited authorial control.Just to be clear, the context was whether a player using their authorial intent to their disadvantage would be “altering the game reality”, not whether or not you would have a problem with it.I suspect that you might not have an issue with a PC “altering the game’s reality”, even as you acknowledge that some alteration of reality took place.As an example:In a seafaring adventure, the PCs are at sea, running low on supplies, but are carrying a cargo of valuable muslin.  They see a ship in the distance.  The DM intends the ship to be a merchantman, with whom the PCs will be able to trade to replenish their supplies.The lookout takes the spyglass to scope the ship, and rolls a natural 20 on the Perception check.The DM duly describes a standard merchantman.The lookout’s player pipes in “To the untrained eye, this may in fact look like a simple merchantman.  But there are too many sailors on deck, and I can clearly cutlasses.  These are pirates lulling us into a false sense of security!”Would you agree that the player is altering reality even if having a merchantman turn into a pirate ship is to the characters’ disadvantage?</blockquote>