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<blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 7417698" data-attributes="member: 6785785">But going off my original statement, we're talking about a detail that I didn't think was relevant enough to warrant knowing ahead of time. So if one of my players asks who was the king before the current king, I can make it up on the spot and achieve the same effect as I would have by writing up a grand history of the throne....because all they asked for was a name.I think that summarizes the point of the article in the OP pretty nicely. If all that's needed is a name, then there's no need for much more info than that.Now, if the PCs show an incredible interest in examining the prior king's downfall and I decide to make it part of the story, then I trust myself and my players to remember the guy's name. And if we don't, then I can just make it up again, and it's not a problem.As for different people remembering different things....I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. It happens in the real world all the time. If that happens, then it's just a case of the characters remembering things differently the way people do all the time. We can take one of the versions and then treat it like the &quot;real&quot; one.But the original comment was about a detail that was not immediately relevant. If that's the case, I can't see how it's an issue. If it's a case of a detail that starts off as irrelevant, and then becomes relevant, then I'm confident that I'll remember it. I do have some notes written down, so I might add a detail like that when it becomes important. But if it's just &quot;hey, who used to be the king here?&quot; then I'll come up with the name on the fly, and take things from there. It works fine for me, and is not an issue at our table.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hawkeyefan, post: 7417698, member: 6785785"] But going off my original statement, we're talking about a detail that I didn't think was relevant enough to warrant knowing ahead of time. So if one of my players asks who was the king before the current king, I can make it up on the spot and achieve the same effect as I would have by writing up a grand history of the throne....because all they asked for was a name. I think that summarizes the point of the article in the OP pretty nicely. If all that's needed is a name, then there's no need for much more info than that. Now, if the PCs show an incredible interest in examining the prior king's downfall and I decide to make it part of the story, then I trust myself and my players to remember the guy's name. And if we don't, then I can just make it up again, and it's not a problem. As for different people remembering different things....I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. It happens in the real world all the time. If that happens, then it's just a case of the characters remembering things differently the way people do all the time. We can take one of the versions and then treat it like the "real" one. But the original comment was about a detail that was not immediately relevant. If that's the case, I can't see how it's an issue. If it's a case of a detail that starts off as irrelevant, and then becomes relevant, then I'm confident that I'll remember it. I do have some notes written down, so I might add a detail like that when it becomes important. But if it's just "hey, who used to be the king here?" then I'll come up with the name on the fly, and take things from there. It works fine for me, and is not an issue at our table. [/QUOTE]

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