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<blockquote data-quote="Nagol" data-source="post: 7352472" data-attributes="member: 23935">No, but actor stance does prevent &quot;I play my 'Unexpected Aid' card.&nbsp; Who would have thought the map is in the kitchen of all places!&quot;.&nbsp; It also prevents &quot;No, the bandit king doesn't attack. His attitude suffers a 'Sudden Reversion' and now he likes us much more.&quot;If the answer lies within base player play then the declaration was incorrect or at least incomplete.&nbsp; Complete declarations would be &quot;I find the map in the study for the map while searching&quot;&nbsp; and &quot;I catch the blood in a handy nearby vessel&quot;.If we assume the declarations are complete for the type of play then there are two remaining possibilities: the answer is going to consume player resources or the GM the arbiter of answers.I'm not going to address the first case because I consider it trivial.In the second case, the GM has a few possible modes of preparation:1) Prepare the position of objects considered meaningful to the game ahead of time.&nbsp; For the first declaration, having decided where the map is, for the second, having a inventory of room contents.2) Develop a model (random or not) that an be applied to answer any declaration dependent on the environment3) Respond to how the table &quot;feels&quot; at that particular moment in the game.Are any of these modes objectively wrong?&nbsp; No, of course not.&nbsp; Will the consistent (or inconsistent I guess) use of one of these mode give a different feel to the game? I propose yes.&nbsp; And that's the answer to why world-build.&nbsp; It gives a different feel to the game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nagol, post: 7352472, member: 23935"] No, but actor stance does prevent "I play my 'Unexpected Aid' card. Who would have thought the map is in the kitchen of all places!". It also prevents "No, the bandit king doesn't attack. His attitude suffers a 'Sudden Reversion' and now he likes us much more." If the answer lies within base player play then the declaration was incorrect or at least incomplete. Complete declarations would be "I find the map in the study for the map while searching" and "I catch the blood in a handy nearby vessel". If we assume the declarations are complete for the type of play then there are two remaining possibilities: the answer is going to consume player resources or the GM the arbiter of answers. I'm not going to address the first case because I consider it trivial. In the second case, the GM has a few possible modes of preparation: 1) Prepare the position of objects considered meaningful to the game ahead of time. For the first declaration, having decided where the map is, for the second, having a inventory of room contents. 2) Develop a model (random or not) that an be applied to answer any declaration dependent on the environment 3) Respond to how the table "feels" at that particular moment in the game. Are any of these modes objectively wrong? No, of course not. Will the consistent (or inconsistent I guess) use of one of these mode give a different feel to the game? I propose yes. And that's the answer to why world-build. It gives a different feel to the game. [/QUOTE]

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