That is legit my favorite thing to do as a Storyteller. If my players are clever I will change things to reward their cleverness. (I will never change things to make them fail, but I will definitely change things to allow them to succeed when it would reward their cleverness or make a cooler story.)
RPGs are collaborative and sometimes my players have better ideas than I do, so why shouldn’t their ideas get to shine? Hell yes.
love when an ancient roman author talks about a woman doing something (like this description of gaia afrania, who argued cases in court) and acts like it’s the worst thing in the world when really all it does it make me want to know her carnally
been thinking a lot about this kylix depicting polyeidos resurrecting glaucos and how interesting it is to depict this myth on a drinking cup…we’re told that glaucos drowned in a vat of honey and was brought back to life when polyeidos gave him a magical herb, and i can picture the ironic enjoyment with which an ancient greek would fill this cup, pouring in wine (perhaps honeyed wine?) to drown glaucos and then draining it to show his resurrection over and over again, retelling the myth through the simple act of using a drinking cup
