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Again, almost every post I read from you is telling me otherwise. You absolutely have said things "like it" even if you haven't literally used the words I did. Declaring what? I absolutely do have right of veto for anything that goes into a game I run. I had a player ask if they could play an...

If my intention was to run a game about Vikings, and not about visitors to Norway hanging out with Vikings, I would most likely be disinclined to allow someone from southern Europe, Africa or the like. Whether I ultimately would or wouldn't would depend on all the specifics, who's asking, why...

You don't like GMs having the power to decide what is acceptable in their game or not. I do. The difference is that you seem genuinely upset that GMs like me even exist (and won't admit we're wrong and unreasonable and power hungry), whereas I am perfectly OK with you gaming happily with a GM...

Typically, I establish what the canon will be in a game I run, so I don't see much of a difference. As I've mentioned, my next game is likely to be set in the 1e Savage Frontier but, anywhere they differ, my vision trumps any and all official Forgotten Realms material. I feel zero obligation to...

Fine. My choice of example did suggest how little energy I have left for the argument you're making. Replace catgirl ninjas with storm troopers or Japanese traders or French nobles or aliens or Chinese animists or elves or Norse gods. I'm still a tyrant in your eyes and I'm OK with that.

Yes, as I just mentioned to @EzekielRaiden, that particular response was a flippant one. That said, I made it in large part because it doesn't seem to me that ER would care in the slightest about that nuance and would, indeed, believe that the GM with all the previously listed powers to say "no"...

Other than the very final comment about catgirl ninjas all the way down, all my responses were serious. As a GM, I absolutely do feel entitled to decide what races, cultures, classes, species, backgrounds etc are appropriate for a game I'm planning to run. If a player wants something outside...

That's news to me. Well, depending on what XYZ are, possibly. Absolutely. You are not playing a bohemian catgirl ninja in my historical Viking game. Absolutely. You are not playing a bohemian catgirl ninja in my historical Viking game. Absolutely. You are not playing a bohemian catgirl ninja...

And the one armed man in the pub. ;)

The journey towards bardhood can be just as much fun as achieving it. I played in a short lived 2e game where I convinced the GM to let me play a 1e bard. The campaign never went anywhere, but while it lasted I had much more fun playing a 1st level fighter who considered himself an apprentice...

Speaking only for myself: Several restrictions on magic users were removed or loosened, for the worse: Preparation time drops from 15 minutes per level to 10 minutes per level, which means high level magic users can recover their full complement of spells much faster. Bonus spells for...

That was my first exposure to it. I don't know if it existed as an example prior to that. In any case, no, I don't really see it as sandbox specific at all.

Well, if you want to get a feel for my thoughts and processes while running a game, this is probably the best way. https://www.rpgpub.com/threads/return-to-the-old-school-how-to-kick-acks-or-die-trying.6939/

There is no single set of universal expectations. One of my first tasks as GM before every single new campaign is to make sure everyone is on the same page about the particular style, expectations and the like that will apply. However, as I just edited into my previous post, there are certainly...

Well, the example goes back at least as far as Finch's Old School Primer, where it is (as far as I can tell) a somewhat tongue-in-cheek call for players to interrogate the game world. As you mention, it's an example used in outlining a philosophy of play based on player skill. That discussion...

Why are you holding people in this thread accountable for things said to you by different people, in a different thread, on a different topic, literally years ago?

40 or 50 is still pretty big. Do what interests you, of course, but if you can fit it in somewhere, I do recommend trying a dungeon of that size, where the PCs are able to acquire a map in advance. Have some spots on it that look like maybe they have secrets. Leave a couple things out...

Not as much as you might expect, in my experience. If you're used to having your players map and you run large dungeons, I recommend providing an opportunity for a map of a level or partial level, just to see how it goes. Without knowing what will be found at any particular place, or what might...

So, in the documentary Behind the Curve, there is a scene where a prominent flat earther is talking about how some of her fellow flat earthers have conspiracy theories about how she's really a CIA plant. She talks about how ridiculous (and hurtful) this is and how she can't even begin to...

I don't necessarily agree that it doesn't matter -- the two modes of play (with a map and without) are different, and moving from one to the other will thus matter if those differences matter to you (and there is a lot more to operating without an existing map and needing to make your own than...