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Why put everything to such extremes? The DM doesn't have to know everything, she just has to know if tieflings are part of her campaign...

Sure. They're welcome to find their bliss elsewhere. Given my personal disinterest in world building for its own sake (though I...

Are your players wandering around aimlessly just occasionally poking at things but otherwise doing nothing? Because I'm assuming that...

My personal concern in these sorts of situations would be are players acting on their character's curiosity or their own? Do their...

These are different, and understanding how they're different can be helpful in analysing RPG play - which can in turn help RPG design...

I don't follow. When attention is paid in the play of the game to the runes, the reasons for their creation emerge. As the anecdote...

This reminds me of how I explain the role of IGOs in Global Governance to students. It's like a group of people of equal status...

This seems to assume no responsibility on the players’ part. If PCs encounter and are killed by a red dragon at level 1, it’s certainly...

Assuming this was in response to my post, I didn't think it was directed at anything other than explaining how your system approaches...

I think that framing the question in that manner is inherently adopting a “trad” framing of the question. Can the group of players...

People are free to organize their play however they want. But assuming the whole hobby either is or should be organized on a take it or...

I wasn't trying to say anything about D&D. I meant the previous as an addendum to the one before. Basically, to clarify that when people...

Not literally. It's a cultural reference. Enough so that there's ascii art for it. The point is that "bear it until you just have to...

On a practical level when it comes to superseding rules and making rulings the vast majority of the time when it's done in the trad...

I don't agree with your conclusion, but I think you know that by now 😀 Central appears to be our different ideas about the capacity of...