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You could explain what you do.

Several people spoke of various things--"realism", plausibility, consistency, etc.--as limitations on GM action. I don't know if anyone...

Certainly. I have very specifically mentioned GMs who think what they are doing is good or right or necessary or expected, even if it...

Is it spoken aloud? Or is it all soft-touch implication, presumed details, and unstated expectations? Because illusionism is fully...

My point was to ask, "Okay, so the players made that decision. What happens to prevent you from doing <blah blah blah>?" where <blah...

We had a thread where I made exactly this argument. It was repeatedly rejected or ignored. You may peruse that thread if you like. Or...

As far as I'm concerned, yes. It may be story background creation, but it is still story creation. You're creating the story of the...

By putting the goblin there, you have just broken the past context and rewritten things to include goblins, even though there...

I should think it obvious that the answer is "no", but this thread has made clear that unless I spill a thousand words on every single...

Nope! Wrong. Incorrect. My point isn't that this is anything like what the world is. I am asking--I have been asking, for quite some...

I am unclear as to why a long-form campaign is incompatible with illusionism.

The claim was that, because players have choices, GMs functionally have no power at all--"all that power is worth naught." Which is...

Well, in my case, it's because I ask about what things are removed from that power. Context? Context is determined by the GM. Things...

Also an incredibly dubious proposition judging by the roaring success of Cortex.

Okay. What do you call it, then, when the DM...does that? When they engage in illusionism--making it seem as though the players are the...