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To me it is far more verisimilitudious that way. D&D classes are weirdly specific packages of capabilities. To me that makes more sense if there is some metaphysical or cultural reason for this. Like why do all wizards cast spells in the same way? Because they're part of the same arcane...

Exact opposite for me. Now there of course can be many enclaves of elves and couple of different wizard orders etc, but I ultimately want everything to have place in the setting. I don't want species and classes to be just mechanical splats that do not diegetically mean anything. I want the...

No, they’re perfectly normal Tolkien dwarves in appearance, they are just called Dragonborn clan. They wear drake and dragon pelts though!

Yes, you can absolutely do it, but then it is pointless to insist that playing "an elf" or "a dragonborn" without the context of what those words mean. Like the GM can say that sure you can play a dragonborn, there is the Dragonborn Clan of mountain dwarves, and then hand you the dwarf rules...

I started designing my current setting Artra probably about a year before the game actually began. At that point I had no idea whether it would even end up as a campaign or who the players might be. And in case of @Lanefan they have a world they've originally designed decades ago, so it was...

Yes, but those things are unrelated to the simulation! Furthermore, you are not merely combining odds of several things you are completely supplanting outcomes causally connected to the things the numbers being used to draw the odds measure, with those causally unconnected to them, as it seems...

You have a rune reading skill, then perhaps difficulty of the runes. Then from these you draw the odds of runes being good or bad. These things are not related. Furthermore, what the character is doing (trying to read the runes) is different than what the rules are determining (whether the runes...

Ultimately I feel the fundamental building blocks of the setting are my responsibility as a GM, and I don't need or want input on those. Intelligent species certainly are pretty fundamental part of the setting for me. You said that you'd personally feel human only as the non-human species do not...

Yeah, I wouldn't call that simulation. By that metric almost anything can be simulation. Nor would I link immersion and simulation in such a direct way. Simulations might feel immersive to some people, but whether they do or don't has no bearing on their status as a simulation.

That seems unlikely. Not a wyvern perhaps. But other things. IIRC the rune thing was not Burning Wheel, but do you think it could work roughly similarly in BW?

Ideally for whom? Not for me. I love world building as a GM, and I don't particularly feel I need help with it, but as player I like exploring what someone else has created. I am not looking for helping the GM to do their job. Again, other approaches are perfectly valid, but not everyone needs...

Yet many setting that originated in novel or films have been successfully used in gaming. Though I actually agree with you somewhat. There are different considerations, I just don't think these lead to game world needing to be "anything goes." It just means it needs to be intractable and able to...

I'm sorry, but to me this comes across as some weird persecution complex. No one in this thread has singled out dragonborn or even mentioned them besides you. I don't think elves or dragonborn are any different in this regard. Nor I expect any significant push back from excluding either. I'm...

Well, not by me. I do not suspect misbehaviour from my players. All these conflicts you imagine, just do not happen. I have friends, I ask them to play game in a world I made, they make characters suitable to the world and we play and have fun. So what? It is still not suitable for every...

Because it is relatively popular game so a lot of people actually have some idea of how it plays. You apparently not among them. No, magical pixies is not valid justification, as none of the stats used to derive the odds include pixie protection among them. Also, we have "any idea" as we know...

Mate! You are the one who has been filling this thread with pages of hysterical rants about tyrannical straw GMs!

I disagree then. Granted, D&D is a toolkit of far more limited in its scope than GURPS, but it is one nevertheless. It does not have bespoke world connected to it. Many official ones have been published over the years, and people have always been encouraged to build their own. Not every world...

What is? You think that a Regency romance game using GURPS must allow mechas or you don't?

That would indeed be simulationistic, if you used these things to derive odds of things related to them but often you don't. There are some guidelines for DCs, but this is an area where I wish there were a lot more examples (and I have said this often.) I have my own guidelines to keep things...

No. D&D is just a game system, which can be used to represent many different worlds. Not every world needs to include everything the game has rules for, any more than a Regency romance game using GURPS needs to include mechas because GURPS has rules for them.