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I would posit that, if your interpretation of other opinions requires that others believe or claim things self-evidently impossible (eg...

from my perspective they are arguing over whether the degree is meaningful and whether the approach works for them at all I haven’t...

the town and the guards potentially (*) are still there, even if the party would never go to that location, but since the party is not...

No they can interact with those things, they can push on boundaries until new things emerge. You guys reduce everything to this one very...

No they aren’t just witnesses. They are active participants.

the players pretty routinely press against the boundaries of what the GM has presented and this takes campaigns in the directions the...

if the rule gives the GM the option to do that at basically any time (the starting point of ‘say yes or roll the dice’, ie every time...

Do you know understand what a metaphor is? I wasn't saying that sand literally moved. :rolleyes:

but what that filter is letting through is influenced by the characters actions (or potentially even the players). If the party goes...

I understand the frustration, and I agree that mischaracterizations from any direction don’t help move the conversation forward. In my...

This. Precisely exactly this. It's the GM's world. You're just getting the chance to witness it.

there is a lot of authority, I don’t think anyone is disputing that. The dispute is about whether it allows for meaningful input /...

I got you covered on this. Having three or four things is not quite how folks who have been running sandbox campaigns have been doing...

how is the DM asking ‘where do you want to go next’ / ‘what do you want to do next’ the DM initiating? Let’s assume the DM brought up...

I don't understand what you're saying. Who is advocating a living world sandbox where the world consists of three or four adventure...