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It has nothing to do with selfishness. It has everything to do with the GM making poor decisions on how to maximize their effectiveness...

The point you seem to be blind to is that you can do all of that stuff without a ton of prep, AND without making choices to invalidate...

Obviously I can't act as some universal arbiter of correctness. But if we define wrong using the criteria "A table that is right is one...

Most importantly to me, nobody is asking the important question, which is "WHY did the PCs burn down a village?" There seems to be an...

Your premise begins with the notion that somehow everyone knows the PCs are guilty. Apparently the PCs were dumb enough to do it in...

Or the DM could just not, you know, make that terrible decision and stamp it into their world-building.

Yeah, this was readily apparent to me this week running a game for a group of late teens/early 20 year olds. I think part of it is that...

I understood burning down the village to be a metaphor even if no-one else did.

"Wrong" is a spectrum. My argument is twofold. 1) If you're playing D&D and you aren't embracing cosmopolitan diversity, a central...

Aka you will what I want and how I want. Thank you for proving my intuition correct. I wouldn't touch your game with a 11 foot pole...

I assume the government also takes care of the powerful monsters and villains as well, making sure the community is safe and doesn't...

I agree that many people make poor choices around what to make important, yes. But I'm certainly not going to tell you that using the...

If that's the only reason to have lore, why are you banning races? The only impact on the player is to deprive them of a choice. I've...

Well, "burn down" is metaphorical. Usually. :) I'm more emphasizing the greater point that the rationale for a setting is to give the...

I mean, I tend not to have players who burn down villages but I also don't set up lynch mobs because they are an orc or tiefling or...