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<blockquote data-quote="N'raac" data-source="post: 6117693" data-attributes="member: 6681948">Sure - and your nephew might well walk past the toy store with nary a passing glance to get to the ice cream shop.&nbsp; But when he is finished the ice cream, he knows that toy store was a block back.&nbsp; If we skip over the street (desert) -&nbsp; just fast forward to the ice cream shop (city), your nephew is unaware of the toy store's existence.&nbsp; So, if there was a cactus that glowed purple and green and smelled like roast mutton in the middle of the desert, we don't mention the players scooting straight by it, because they want to get right to the city.&nbsp; Then the priest in the city needs a ritual plant, so rare and difficult to find, do we now mention &quot;hey, you remember passing one of those on your third day of centipede riding&quot;?&nbsp; Or should the players have been given the option of stopping to investigate, even if all they chose to do was race by?&nbsp; Or, since they are now interested in the ritual, did they retroactively bring that strange plant with them?&nbsp; Or is this just bad GMing in general - the plant cannot exist until the priest introduces it?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="N'raac, post: 6117693, member: 6681948"] Sure - and your nephew might well walk past the toy store with nary a passing glance to get to the ice cream shop. But when he is finished the ice cream, he knows that toy store was a block back. If we skip over the street (desert) - just fast forward to the ice cream shop (city), your nephew is unaware of the toy store's existence. So, if there was a cactus that glowed purple and green and smelled like roast mutton in the middle of the desert, we don't mention the players scooting straight by it, because they want to get right to the city. Then the priest in the city needs a ritual plant, so rare and difficult to find, do we now mention "hey, you remember passing one of those on your third day of centipede riding"? Or should the players have been given the option of stopping to investigate, even if all they chose to do was race by? Or, since they are now interested in the ritual, did they retroactively bring that strange plant with them? Or is this just bad GMing in general - the plant cannot exist until the priest introduces it? [/QUOTE]

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