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@Enrahim relating to the two modes you outline, when running a game I effectively have two different modes as a GM. Between the games I...

In my view, the setting existed before the PC did, just like the world exists before we do, and both ourselves and the PC are "born"...

I'm convinced that if they didn't feel this material was able to be included in a 112 or 200+ page book, it would be forgotten on a hard...

Exact opposite for me. Now there of course can be many enclaves of elves and couple of different wizard orders etc, but I ultimately...

Let me give you an example of a good player. I had detailed a pantheon of God in my campaign world. One player chose to be a cleric of...

Well, I didn't want to chime in on this specific because it would make me seem intolerable in general. If it is in the packet that I...

Where is this notion of breaking the game coming from? My notion is that such instances here was only that they were not simulationist...

Does the GM who puts far more work into creating the world and running the game (even if they enjoy it, like I do) change their world to...

I think the burden is on the player and if no compromise can be reached then the player leaves or accepts the DMs decision. This is of...

How do we know this post was not written by pixies? ;)

I don't know about that, though. In this thread I've learned that everything can be explained by pixies. All the way down, it's all...

I started designing my current setting Artra probably about a year before the game actually began. At that point I had no idea whether...

Yes, but those things are unrelated to the simulation! Furthermore, you are not merely combining odds of several things you are...

That's like saying the weather is caused by stepping outside your door. The idea of "simulationist" is there is always weather. The DM...

I expect a new player joining my group will learn how my group functions, not expect us to change to emulate some pre-conceived idea...