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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8233965" data-attributes="member: 29398">When I read &quot;events happening in the future&quot; my thoughts went to GM notes along the lines of &quot;Three months into the new year a Huge Blue Dragon will attack the city of Praetos&quot; or &quot;The cult of Chronos will infiltrate the Apollo temple over the second half of next year and will have taken over by year's end&quot;.&nbsp; Not putting the word &quot;potential&quot; in there strongly implies these events are going to happen even if the PCs take out the Blue Dragon before it attacks or break up the Chronos cult before their plans get going; and that sort of thing really does stand to invalidate PC actions and-or effects on the setting.Things on maps count, to me, as previously locked in: the map shows merely the results of history.&nbsp; Those walls that don't have any secret doors in them were (in the fiction) built long before the PCs started adventuring and as nobody's cut any secret doors through them since, that's what the map shows.&nbsp; Any hills that were once just north of where that swamp now lies were (in the fiction) eroded ages before any of the PCs' ancestors settled this region, and that's what the map shows.&nbsp; And so on.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8233965, member: 29398"] When I read "events happening in the future" my thoughts went to GM notes along the lines of "Three months into the new year a Huge Blue Dragon will attack the city of Praetos" or "The cult of Chronos will infiltrate the Apollo temple over the second half of next year and will have taken over by year's end". Not putting the word "potential" in there strongly implies these events are going to happen even if the PCs take out the Blue Dragon before it attacks or break up the Chronos cult before their plans get going; and that sort of thing really does stand to invalidate PC actions and-or effects on the setting. Things on maps count, to me, as previously locked in: the map shows merely the results of history. Those walls that don't have any secret doors in them were (in the fiction) built long before the PCs started adventuring and as nobody's cut any secret doors through them since, that's what the map shows. Any hills that were once just north of where that swamp now lies were (in the fiction) eroded ages before any of the PCs' ancestors settled this region, and that's what the map shows. And so on. [/QUOTE]

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