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I'm envisioning that someone (maybe GM, maybe someone else, maybe multiple people) propose a game, which may come with a world attached...

I've played in and run a lot of games where the GM has control over everything in the world except the PCs. I've never had the GM...

Really? In that case maybe this because noone has been aware of ultra fixed settings with everything being nailed down to extreme detail...

Ok. I got confused because I disagree with the italicized premise.

I think the point might be that limiting away Thiefling is ok, but doing so because having mapped out everything is not ok. The reason...

I'm having trouble understanding the arguments here because they seem so tied to what imagined subjects of play the group have chosen to...

What is the isekai vibe?

Is the social contract easy to ignore or not? You've called it useless for keeping the DM from being Thanos to his players, but here...

No one said it was free, did they. There are consequences to any choice anyone makes.

The runes example, notably, was not. You can cast almost anything as a memory. But the key element for me was not whether or not it is...

Again, the game gives it whether you want it or not. Also, sometimes, in rare circumstances, it does need to be used.

Interestingly, I can't stand the isekai vibe as a player. I don't like it because it doesn't feel grounded, it doesn't feel like a...

You're making it sound like that's only how it is used, instead how it works in the overwhelming majority of real life games which is...

And that's totally fine. It's just a preference, and not mine.

"Sorry Dave, you've put a lot of work into this setting but it's not what I'm feeling right now. I'll catch you for the next campaign"