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Multiple posters in this thread have pointed to examples of play from Burning Wheel as not being simulationist. You appear to do so...

But... you're in charge of the surface folks' reactions. I don't quite understand. They don't HAVE TO react that way if you don't want...

Ideally for everyone. If you sketch out your world and before you complete it, you share some details with the players and solicit any...

Sure, some settings used for telling stories in novels/film/comics/etc. work fine for RPGs. I’m not saying there can’t be some overlap...

Because my only point is that it’s not an uncommon expectation that the things in the PHB will be available to play. You’ve stated...

Well, gospel is hyperbole. I’m just saying that, until told otherwise, when someone talks about D&D, I’m gonna assume the races and...

But that could all be changed very simply if you wanted. You could just say “on this world, Drow are not all evil… they are like any...

I personally would default to nothing but humans. I don’t find the other heritages or races to be all that interesting, really. They...

Agreed. No plane-touched in a world where all of the planes collapsed into each other seems backwards; I would expect lots of...

Yes, but it's only weird if you're working under the assumption that the game is meant to be a toolkit, and there aren't any standard...

Heck, I think it’s OK to exclude things. It just needs to be very mindfully and cautiously, and with full player buy-in. It’s the...

GURPS is a toolkit game. I don’t think D&D should be used as such without careful consideration; I think it causes more problems than...

Yes, it may be. But what I've seen is that most often, it's not. Many folks here and many I've discussed with and played with create...

To me, the issue is that the number of DMs who think making a super-specific setting is great fun vastly outstrips the number of players...

There’s a big difference between a Wookiee Jedi in Star Trek (where both concepts belong to a separate IP) and wanting to play an...