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following the discussion back a few responses to how it was originally introduced and used it seems to be being used to refer to when...

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

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

Playing a character that doesn't seem to know the world is what I get from the context.

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...

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...

You'll note my post did not say "memories".

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...

"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"

As a player, I want the DM to have that power first and foremost because I do not want it. If I have the power to construct the world...

You see that paragraph there? That's what you are doing to us. Your depiction of absolute power is a ludicrously extreme caricature to...

An advisor doesn't need to have any authority at all. All it takes to be an advisor is to be in a position to give advice. That's it.

Do you know what your definition lacks? Anything saying that a person with unconditional power can't choose to listen to someone else...

Errr...I think I missed something. What did I do this time?

This thread led me to their “Play D&D in a Castle” retreats and now I am pitching my spouse on a trip to England.