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You made the decision to not have orcs in your fantasy setting. That’s not a judgment. It’s not a normative statement. It’s just a...

Exit light, enter night; take my hand, we're off to Never-Never Land. But Never-Never Land does not exist any more than the Forgotten...

I agree that it is something you can strive for, but that striving is the cause, not anything external to yourself. There is no world...

If some sandboxes have DMs who shape aspects of the setting around player decisions, and other sandboxes have DMs who don’t do that...

The GM doesn't know, in advance, what actions the players will declare for their PCs. This is where the variable input comes from, as...

I'm not belittling anyone's processes. I'd just like people to describe them, instead of using ellipsis and metaphor like "the world...

I see what you're saying. What I would prefer, in a conversation, would be for people to talk about the approaches they use, rather...

Back a bunch of pages, I got told in no uncertain terms that one of the strengths of sandbox games is how it can so easily adopt player...

Which is exactly what pemerton has said. The imaginary world simply--flatly--does not exist. Our beliefs and attitudes exist, and those...

I mean, I don't really think it was designed with the idea of anything quite like PbtA-style Principles, but if I had to pick them...

Take that up with @Lanefan, not me. Please point me to where I said that. I've just done a search of the use of the words "incoherent"...

Notice how, if we don't ever step outside the metaphor, we can't tell if it's holding up as it should!

A GM who is pretending to themself that it the fiction is real - and hence who sets out to disclaim to themself any responsibility for...