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<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8224750" data-attributes="member: 23751">There's no difference to the players, but there is a difference to the game and fiction.&nbsp; If I have called a place in my world the Shattered Sun, it exists in the world where Tlacalique Cipactomoco never has and never will.&nbsp; One has been created for my fiction and the other hasn't.&nbsp; That's a difference, even if the players don't know about it until they find it, if they ever do.There are three fictions involved in D&amp;D.&nbsp; The DM's fiction, which is the game setting.&nbsp; The players' fictions, which are their PCs and associated backgrounds and experiences.&nbsp; And the shared fiction which merges the two. If I have decided not to change things once placed into the world, it's as permanent as the PCs are.&nbsp; Moreso, because it's pretty easy within the fiction to remove a PC from the world, but not so easy to remove a place.I have no such attitude and never have.&nbsp; I understand that the DM wields all of the power, but the reality is that the vast majority of DMs, myself included, take the players into consideration and don't beat them over the head with it. We want the game to be enjoyable for everyone.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 8224750, member: 23751"] There's no difference to the players, but there is a difference to the game and fiction. If I have called a place in my world the Shattered Sun, it exists in the world where Tlacalique Cipactomoco never has and never will. One has been created for my fiction and the other hasn't. That's a difference, even if the players don't know about it until they find it, if they ever do. There are three fictions involved in D&D. The DM's fiction, which is the game setting. The players' fictions, which are their PCs and associated backgrounds and experiences. And the shared fiction which merges the two. If I have decided not to change things once placed into the world, it's as permanent as the PCs are. Moreso, because it's pretty easy within the fiction to remove a PC from the world, but not so easy to remove a place. I have no such attitude and never have. I understand that the DM wields all of the power, but the reality is that the vast majority of DMs, myself included, take the players into consideration and don't beat them over the head with it. We want the game to be enjoyable for everyone. [/QUOTE]

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