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I think this puts word to a central concept I have been circling around myself. To what extent is the character the game? I now...

Quick solution is to require training to level up. That goes a long way to making similar progressions within each class more...

To me it is far more verisimilitudious that way. D&D classes are weirdly specific packages of capabilities. To me that makes more sense...

In my view, the setting existed before the PC did, just like the world exists before we do, and both ourselves and the PC are "born"...

Exact opposite for me. Now there of course can be many enclaves of elves and couple of different wizard orders etc, but I ultimately...

Let me give you an example of a good player. I had detailed a pantheon of God in my campaign world. One player chose to be a cleric of...

That would depend on how central to my campaign the dwarves are. If I've detailed out every tribe, because they factor majorly in my...

Well, I didn't want to chime in on this specific because it would make me seem intolerable in general. If it is in the packet that I...

Does the GM who puts far more work into creating the world and running the game (even if they enjoy it, like I do) change their world to...

I think the burden is on the player and if no compromise can be reached then the player leaves or accepts the DMs decision. This is of...

I climbed up a cliff, and it turns out on the top of the cliff was a cook the whole time, just cooking up weather.

But are those pixies healthy, or are they diagetic and on medication for it? Inquiring min...pixies want to know!

I don't know about that, though. In this thread I've learned that everything can be explained by pixies. All the way down, it's all...

What happens in that fictional space of the game must originate from the players of the game. If you reject that then nothing can ever...

Exactly. And narrating that weather, even when the PCs are only looking out a window at it, is a quick and easy way of setting a tone...