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Yeah--letting the players decide what their PCs do. GMs can roll for their NPCs, if they want to.

I made a decision about the fictional world before the player ever said what his chosen enemy was and I saw no reason to change it. Do...

When I create a world map I take into consideration real world weather patterns and base in on real world conditions assuming my fantasy...

I, and others, have said time and time again that our sandboxes are not built around the desires of specific characters. There is no...

Different people have different approaches with benefits and drawbacks to all of them. I don't build my world around the characters...

They're talking about using logic and procedures to help them simulate a realistic world including how it responds to character actions...

OK, you do realize that not every GM runs in exactly the same way, and thus different people are going to give you different responses...

I'd say no because you're talking about a specific genre--D&D fantasy, which is its own thing.

The rules don't say. The only given examples are having a debate in front of an audience and two people trying to convince a ruler to...

@pemerton You’re still missing the point. I’m not claiming imaginary things have real-world causal power. I’m saying that in a Living...

If the conversation doesn’t move forward from here, I expect the next replies will focus on tone-policing, denying intent, or doubling...

OK, so fun fact: I found a copy of BW Gold online. I didn't download it, because I won't download a game without paying for it, but I...

Referees “fooling themselves” or engaging in “self-deception” when treating a setting as a real place for adjudication purposes is not a...

PLEASE tell me you're not speaking from personal experience here! :)