Mar 2, 2017, 2:37 AM

@Miss-Demeanor I have seen this happen many times when playing tabletop, and it isn't just dickish GM's either. A lot of storytellers tend not to take into consideration all possible avenues of exploration, so what ends up happening is that when clever players try to follow a thread... the GM panics and smacks them for not paying attention to this other thing they /have/ thought through.
If feel it's all sides that might need change, players should look into subtle things without fear of being attacked by the GM, and GM's should be encouraged to flesh out their stories with more than just one thread of play through and/or simply not get flustered if players don't pick up on their 'clever' thread hooks.