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That's a major point where I differ from you. I do want "being a PC" to be an exception in my game. I want PCs (along with certain...

That's definitely one way of doing it. By contrast, I tend to assume that PCs ARE special in some way... extra motivated, extra capable...

One thought I've had in the past - in movie terms - is "the camera is on these guys because they end up having the epic story. It could...

Totally. I think the thing is to try to make sure that prospective audiences reasonably know what they're getting into. There's always...

That all makes sense, but it leads to asking: what can you present when you're trying to sell a product to the public, if any potential...

Can you tell me why? What does it limit me from doing? How does it affect players?

Gary: "Everybody in the world should be an absolute schlub except for the PCs and the occasional Evil High Priest or Antipaladin; i.e...

It's also possible to have a mix where some of the lands in the setting have that segregation while others are more cosmopolitan. Also...

I was re-reading Wizards Presents Worlds & Monsters for 4e, as one does, and there is a part where the designers intentionally wanted to...

I'm a bit two minds about this, and this is reflected on my world Artra. There is some integration, many non-humans live alongside...

I went with human dominant, although the dwarves used to be dominant. Thus, that allowed for me to have ruins scattered throughout the...

VERY good points, especially about the differences between home play and play with mostly strangers in a public venue. At a home game...

It doesn't seem bad to you and I because it's just fictional dwarves leaving the Dwarf homeland because, say, the Elves devastated it in...

In my recent campaign, elves were immortal. They could be killed but they wouldn't age naturally beyond a certain point. Kind of like...

Oh yeah, totally, many of them did die early. They were rolling the dice for a potential big payout figuring that their alternatives at...