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Is it? I have talked about degrees of control over the shared fiction. That is what I am analysing. Whether any given degree is...

But the point--very very specifically, made repeatedly in this thread--is that the world is never created "in response to" the PCs. The...

This. Precisely exactly this. It's the GM's world. You're just getting the chance to witness it.

What games allow players to “easily change aspects” of the game world? A flashback cannot change what’s happened, though. It can...

Then it would be nice if folks on "your side" of this particular discussion would stop doing that to styles you aren't advocating for.

I have yet to see daylight between them. Yes...I literally said that a ways upthread, with an example of how (for example) having a...

There only are four or five sites. When players look anywhere else, then and only then is something else produced. At which point, you...

But we have had several people in this very discussion give such examples--and that any time players go somewhere else, things are...

... I genuinely don't understand what we're arguing about here then. You recognize that the only things that are getting details...are...

My point wasn't that it has to be as realized as the real world. My point was that if the GM is placing three or four points of...

And I'm saying there are other ways to create the feeling of objectivity. Your way isn't the only way; it's but one among many. Yet...

Cartographers don't place things on maps. They draw maps which correspond to a literal, physical location. Presuming they aren't...

I never said it was physical. I said that it was created by the GM for subjective reasons, subject to subjective filtering of what is or...

Can someone be in the driver's seat when the only positions on the map are those the GM creates for them to go to?

Except that what @pemerton said is that most settings are objective--meaning, there's nothing particularly special about the objectivity...