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Taken at face value, yes. Naturally, with essentially no details, I can't say for sure there couldn't be an issue somewhere. But taken...

Then no. That would not be acceptable to me. Name only with absolutely nothing else physiologically associated, wouldn't work. If a GM...

Not necessarily. Bloodtide has painted things in extremes. Extremes are rare. Deviation, variation, and reinterpretation are all very...

Then you would be running 5e in a way specifically not intended, which contradicts the explicit text given to players. 5e made very...

The DMG instructs that "During each stage of the characters’ journey, you can determine what the weather is like by rolling on the...

Er...no? Like VERY specifically it is not meaningless otherwise? Because that's literally THE thing that people uphold as the...

I was speaking to them about this because I was expecting 5e rules. You don't use 5e rules. What I said to them wouldn't apply to you.

I have spoken with them for many, many years. I'm very confident this is not their process.

Okay...but...MANY participants in this thread have specifically said that that's an essential part of that authority. Enforcing...

Okay. Do you think most players would view it that way? That if you were introducing this style to someone new, they would view it that...

That word certainly set a tone, but it was not the only contributing factor. Well, some of it was in that, and some was in the phrasing...

You....do realize that the fundamental nature of fiction, of any kind, IS that anything can be anything if you build it up to be so...

The point was, someone being real real persnickety about "absolutely NO dragonborn!!!" isn't just excluding some weird hyperspecific...

Naive feels like a good way to put it. A player who has zero experience with RPGs still knows they’re games, and on trying to learn to...

Well, from my understanding, that's like saying that school majors obfuscate the intricate complexity of knowledge, how it doesn't...