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See, this shifting meaning of "simulation"--on the one hand, precise and predictable modeling of physical(ish) situations and their...

"Must" you accept anything? "Must" the player accept everything? As for Ryu & Ronin, oni. That's...pretty much literally what oni are...

Have you not seen the examples in this thread? Any and every action the GM doesn't like, regardless of reason, can and will get a "no"...

Do you demand (expect, require, whatever you like) absolute power over the fiction they're allowed to experience?

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

HOLD THE HORSES! STOP THE TRAIN! For 1,000+ pages people had issues with the unfortunate luck of running into a cook when one failed...

None of my players are interested in running games--at all. In fact, I'm supremely confident that all of them have some degree of...

Then I think those people would be best served by doing the thing that does, in fact, give them absolute power over a fiction: Write a...

As I have said, and as I think history amply demonstrates, those who have power violate the social contract--whatever social contract it...

That was my understanding, yes.

Well, let's see. I explained a thing which is lost by having the GM sew up every single detail of the world before the players ever...

They certainly act like that cost is functionally zero for players, while pretending that it's some ENORMOUS social cost for the GM. In...

It's one out of about...25? campaigns I've played in. I'd say that's nowhere near "really, really, really rare". Especially when I...

Then why do they need "absolute power"???? That's what absolute power is! That's what nailing everything down IS! There is no...

I could not give two feces whether any DMG says or ever said that. You can keep quoting it all you like. It's completely irrelevant to...