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Yes. You should be accomodating the player. Your world-building interests are of lesser priority. I've said that like three times...

Wait, when did the player in this hypothetical refuse to explain and become an irrational child? If that's the sort of people you play...

Yes, well, it would have helped if the game was designed to be angsty personal horror. But, the game design is clearly superheroes with...

You can look at this from the perspective of the designers theme/genre expectations or from a following the RAW. As for the former...

I think what you're describing here is a failure of game design. Vampire and Cyberpunk 2020 are great games and I love them both but...

I understood burning down the village to be a metaphor even if no-one else did.

Well, "burn down" is metaphorical. Usually. :) I'm more emphasizing the greater point that the rationale for a setting is to give the...

Exactly. The work you do for a campaign setting frame is like building a bonfire. You stack a bunch of pieces together to give the...

And the point I'm making is that building a setting that isn't anchored in a group of players' interests and choices is a waste of time...

And that’s totally fine. If a player agrees to a game with a tight premise, and later on decides they don’t want to do that anymore...

Why is working out a mutually-acceptable compromise always "the DM's fun hav[ing] to take a back seat"? You are creating an us-vs-them...

I don't choose to play CoC. Why do you think that might be? Even ignoring my dislike of eldritch horror, the fact the setting is so...

@soviet responded more or less how I would, but more politely, so I won't say that. I see this so-called "compromise" as an open slap...

So a couple thoughts in this. First, and simply, describing the process of Brindlewood Bay as “a random check” is way off. It’s like...

This is where a lot of conspiracy theorist get turned around. They become hyper focused on some detail they can't find a good...