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Is your argument that if the GM doesn't want a particular species represented in the game and/or the setting and the player does, too...

Maybe following a plot isn't the point of the game.

I want to explore and experience the GM's world. That includes making a character that fits into that world.

This thread is from 10 years ago. The soul knife was not available when it was written.

Went to Shake Shack for the first time in a while tonight (they opened one in my hometown). For comparison's sake, I tried to get the...

I would prefer for the DM to determine the species and cultures and major political organizations prior to play. I don't think those...

Who gives a royal fig about the art? The game isn't played by flipping through the monster manual for pictures... Egad, that's petty...

And yet in all four of those examples the "underlings" can suggest ideas or courses of action that the "leader" can then choose to...

I absolutely want to have a fire extinguisher in my house. I absolutely hope to never have to use it. In that case I think your...

Does it matter that so many of us who favor this style want to play in these games as well? I want the GM to define political entities...

The 3 starter box sets are all rather non-cult. The after Icespire Peak series does have Talos cultists but are more barbarians if you...

I had in mind A New Hope as an RPG. All the players know is that hyperspace is used to travel between planets, until the moment of truth...

I think this talk about these things that shouldn't be investigated to deeply opens up another interesting question: How to flag things...

Star Trek doesn't use relativity to travel at FTL speeds. They wrap their ships in warp bubbles. So the only reason to discussion...

They both create such explanations. It is just a question of how deep. At the surface level, explanations like "the computer has to make...