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I think there’s just some resistance or whatever on their behalf to buying into your core assertion that “it’s all turtles GM decisions...

These aren't cases of imaginary things having real effects. These are actual things - mental and/or bodily states - having real...

My limited experience (read: I've read Crime & Punishment) suggests that the act of murder is more enjoyable in the contemplation than...

Sometimes people will be too scared to kill someone, sometimes they won't be. Hmm. If only there was some way to resolve such...

I mean, are you simply arguing that a lot of people without agendas and principles? The DM just says "Well, this feels good, let's do...

This claim is I think actually is controversial in the philosophy of fiction, because some philosophers think that fictions can be...

I could be wrong, but I took @TwoSix to be reiterating the fact that the fiction is authored in virtue of GM decision-making. Because...

There’s never one true way. But it’s there’s no sense of boundary as to what a “sandbox” is, then it’s a fairly useless term.

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...