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There is no "GM of the real world". The real world isn't a leisure activity involving imagination distributed across asymmetric...

Ahh, this nails down the issue here. I am in no way making any sort of qualitative judgement about better or worse. I'm not. I'm in...

Yep. Pink elephants also ride in on little tricycles, while Vecna turns up in a clown car. I can't believe it's taken you so long to...

Ah, I didn't go back far enough! I did indeed find it strange that I would supposedly be the first to make that association.

Consider: You have a world where there have never been any dragonborn (or tieflings, or firbolgs, or whatever "non-Tolkien but...

If you were more skilled, you would have picked that lock a lot sooner, before the cook made his way to the kitchen. If you were more...

I don't think they do it either. Its a term that can apply to an in-game character's ability to do that sort of thing (and I know of a...

Only the GM gets to warp reality.

Huh. But I feel like the flaw is the mumbo jumbo plot resolution. The human connections part was superb. He nailed the emotional aspect...

The problem with Interstellar is that it was a Stephen Spielberg film and he would've directed the hell out of it, and due to Hollywood...

That’s not the science they mean. That bit is, indeed, magic. But when they talk about the science they are talking about the depiction...

To give an example from a few years ago. Game is 13th Age set in Greyhawk. My character is an elven princeling playboy and is in...

They do an ‘A-Team’ style shot of some rolling over and groaning and stuff after, so I think the implication is no.

A friend and I are arguing over this: Did Superman kill those Raptors at the end? Either with his heat vision or the subsequent fall?

Only one creates a fiction where no explanation is possible. Playing my MHRP Fantasy game, it is not possible for the characters to...