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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7341789" data-attributes="member: 29398">No, she would never know whether there was one there to be found or not; and nor would anyone else.That's why I just left it as 'uncertain' - there could be one there but with complications, there might not be one there, whatever.Where I'm talking about both player-side and DM-side preferences pretty much equally, as for me it's the same either way: I want to be DMed the same way I DM, and vice versa.And here it comes down to our different definitions of what 'matter' means in the phrase 'choices matter'.For me, I know it's not my place as a player to build the game world in any major way; but I also know it can be my place to make a bit of a mess of what has been built via what my PC does.  How and where and why and even if I make said mess are all my choices, and they all matter.The DM puts out hooks but I can choose to ignore them or not; the resulting choice of what adventuring we do is one that matters.  Etc.In your system, something I wonder is just how often - if ever - the PCs actually get a real chance to sit back, relax, and choose from more than one available option what major thing (i.e. adventure) they will tackle next.  From your play examples and your talk of "always keeping the pressure on" it seems like this never happens; that the PCs are always up against it in an endless cycle of action-and-reaction.  I wonder if this works against player/PC choice every bit as much as a hard railroad does.Not who, but what: the integrity of the game.Yes it might seem a bit silly to in effect roll against myself, but how else do I honestly and fairly determine how and where - and in some cases why - the dominoes fall?  I could, I suppose, just make something up - it'd be faster to do it this way, but less robust; and I could easily trap myself in paradox or talk myself into a corner (both of which are completely unacceptable red flags pointing to a DM who just doesn't know his guano) if the PCs/players dig deep into what happened and how.Lanefan</blockquote>

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