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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 7101843" data-attributes="member: 6775031">No, this is very much on topic. One of the common misconceptions that players frequently have is that they think the DM chooses to make things happen. They think that the DM chooses when they can sleep, for example. And that's not how DMing works. The DM does not have the authority to make something happen, just because they want it to. What the DM wants is irrelevant to the DMing process.In reality, the DM is an interpreter. The DM says what actually happens in the game world, based on their honest interpretation of what they know is going on in the background, and a fair metric to represent their own uncertainty. If the pursuing dragon would spend four hours searching north first, before heading east to where the party is hiding, then the DM can't make the dragon take an extra four hours to search south as well in order to give the party time to rest; and if they honestly determine that the dragon would search south before heading east, then it's out of the DM's control to deny the party those eight hours. Intentionally mis-representing something like that would be akin to intentionally adding +4 to 13 and getting 21 -- it's simply dishonest.</blockquote>