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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 8343124" data-attributes="member: 7026617">You might not know from one or two situations.&nbsp; But if I happen to notice that there's always an elaborate, detailed location or encounter in every place we go, I'm going to start assuming the fix is in simply out of a knowledge of how much prep time is involved.&nbsp; And this is from someone who was prone to using a few random table rolls and pulling things like a barrow-field encounter entirely out of my butt on the fly at need on occasion in my GMing career (I only use that because a player flat out asked me afterwards whether that was preplanned and looked, not disbelieving but boggled when I said no).That's the gig with a lot of forms of illusionism.&nbsp; It becomes harder and harder to pull off over time when people start to notice your patterns, and most people are not nearly as good at misdirection when it comes to it as they think they are.&nbsp; That's why I generally think its best used sparingly and/or with people who've already bought in to you doing it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thomas Shey, post: 8343124, member: 7026617"] You might not know from one or two situations. But if I happen to notice that there's always an elaborate, detailed location or encounter in every place we go, I'm going to start assuming the fix is in simply out of a knowledge of how much prep time is involved. And this is from someone who was prone to using a few random table rolls and pulling things like a barrow-field encounter entirely out of my butt on the fly at need on occasion in my GMing career (I only use that because a player flat out asked me afterwards whether that was preplanned and looked, not disbelieving but boggled when I said no). That's the gig with a lot of forms of illusionism. It becomes harder and harder to pull off over time when people start to notice your patterns, and most people are not nearly as good at misdirection when it comes to it as they think they are. That's why I generally think its best used sparingly and/or with people who've already bought in to you doing it. [/QUOTE]

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