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Isekai is a sub-genre of anime and manga about a character getting transported to a different world. It’s popular in Japan, but can be...

It’s clear D&D has some aspects of simulation. It’s clear some other games have more robust simulation at least in some areas. It’s...

I'm the polar opposite; having aspects of the setting my character would either already know, or be able to immediately sense, be told...

Would you like us to point out the every time you use openly disparaging, mocking terms for other DM's preferences in this one post...

Then someone should talk out about making your posts personal attacks. I wasn't talking about an internet message board. I was...

I do not see the connection between your example and the concept of fleshing out the entire world in absolute detail?

Imagine you feel like running Dungeon World. You ask your friend if they are interested to play. Your friend say they do not feel like...

If you want to play a tiefling, and will not budge on that, and the DM says "no tieflings" and won't budge on that, what does your group...

I think this is the claim that is being disputed. And further, even if not required, it might still be desireable. Even to the point of...

That is sure as hell the sentiment I have gotten from the vast majority of people promoting the "traditional GM" approach. "You WILL...

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...