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If you assume players are perfectly interchangeable widgits then sure it is a trivial cost. They aren't.

following the discussion back a few responses to how it was originally introduced and used it seems to be being used to refer to when...

I can very easily imagine memories without being pulled out of character. To me that is (part of) playing my character. Whereas having...

The language of "reality altering", "quantum" etc to me just signals a failure to recognise that RPGing can take forms beyond one fairly...

100% agreed on the "isekai vibe": as a GM, I don't have any interest in exhibiting my setting to the players as an object of...

I don't think curation of options is particularly related to broader playstyle questions. I personally tend to favor curating the list...

There is a difference between "the traditional GM must have everything determined" and "the traditional GM can limit choices in...

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...