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I have a setting where the monsters (mostly dinosaurs because, well, dinosaurs are awesome) come out at night. The further away from...

if you think about your own metaphor i think it becomes abundantly clear the answer is absolutely 'yes, they can', but the GM doesn't...

It's the GMs world, You're getting the chance for your character to impact it with their actions.

Heh. I had players ask me if there was anywhere they could buy flavored syrups from, because they had a spell that let them create ice...

Zero. The players might go: "we would like to open up a coffee bar". That was something actually discussed in one of my games. In the...

Sure they can. If you put out a map with places X, Y, and Z labeled, there's always going to be players who will point at an unlabeled...

Maps are anachronistic in any type of pre-industrial society. Maybe the rulers have them - highly inaccurate ones, but ordinary folk...

Yes, the DM of a sandbox makes decisions to adjudicate the world. Is this the sticking point? As I said before, for you "the DM...

Exactly. My table isn't huge for combat. We generally try to find peaceful solutions--but we have no problem with combat against foes...

Whilst I personally think this is great stuff to have happen now and then, there are (sadly) some here who would take umbrage with such...

A lot of fantasy games like to claim monsters and magic are rare and wondrous things (in large part to avoid having to do a ton of...

The idea that sandboxes are ever "impartial and objective" is a bit silly. The sandbox has to include things that the players will find...

Please see the disclaimer I included at the end of my post in the (clearly misguided) hope it would prevent exactly this kind of...

I would posit that, if your interpretation of other opinions requires that others believe or claim things self-evidently impossible (eg...

if the rule gives the GM the option to do that at basically any time (the starting point of ‘say yes or roll the dice’, ie every time...