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What it tells me is that the DM is simply curating the game's players, within reason, to suit the game he's got prepared and is willing...

You claimed, way back then, that D&D was bad/difficult for sandbox games because it took too long. Many of us said "So what? We don't...

For me it'd be six months of work to get any form of D&D off the ground, be it sandbox or railroad or linear or whatever, if I was...

Welcome. I will send my Minister of Correct Thought around shortly to teach you the secret handshake.

During play, the players probably make more decisions in aggregate than I do. Outside of play, I make loads of decisions during prep...

if all things are equal, why can't we also be urging players to ignore their dislikes?

You say this like it's a bad thing. Why on earth would I include something in my setting that I don't want to see there?

I've spent a lot of time building the world most of my campaigns occur in. I have had many people praise me and show amazement for the...

And allowing them is a rejection of my own interests. So, stalemate; and now the DM gets to pull rank.

Opposite tack here: I say build the setting first. If you build it, they will come. That, and inviting players in only to then have...

I can’t speak for @EzekielRaiden, although I think we share similar sentiments on this issue. My take is that generally a GM shouldn’t...

You get better results if you add up the dice, the bonuses, and everything else, get the original damage total, and then multiply that...

I didn't preplan it when I ran the game. I tried it as it was meant to be played. I disliked the lack of preplanning.

That we know of 😉. Seriously though, I prefer to treat the sub-creation of the setting as real for purposes of the game. As the author...

Are you sure your position isn't, "if the players wants to play something that isn't in the world the GM made and is running, the GM...