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<blockquote data-quote="GnomeWorks" data-source="post: 4673528" data-attributes="member: 162">I'll admit that your interpretation makes more sense than my initial one did. But yes, it could have been clearer.Oh yes, we most definitely have a philosophical difference.No, it doesn't.I DM for multiple groups, which means that the world needs to matter when a group isn't adventuring in it, because another group *could* be. When I'm not DM'ing, I write fiction based in my setting. This is not just a place for gaming - it is a setting in which gaming happens to take place.That... strikes me as a completely alien approach to world design, actually. I design the world in such a way that it includes elements that interest me and that make sense. Nothing is put there specifically for PCs.This seems to be circular, to me, though I'm not quite able to put my finger on how or why.Things need to be the way they are for a reason. Not necessarily a readily-obvious one, but there needs to be one, and one that is based on the world, not a metagame concept like level.Why are all the threats in the city of brass epic - why are all the inhabitants epic? The premise of why you need the open lock DCs to all be higher based on tier seems to be based on the idea that everyone the PCs interact with at a given tier is also going to be at that same tier, which seems awkward.That would seem to be the way it is going. We are arriving at the same destination, but again, it is not just results I am interested in, but also processes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GnomeWorks, post: 4673528, member: 162"] I'll admit that your interpretation makes more sense than my initial one did. But yes, it could have been clearer. Oh yes, we most definitely have a philosophical difference. No, it doesn't. I DM for multiple groups, which means that the world needs to matter when a group isn't adventuring in it, because another group *could* be. When I'm not DM'ing, I write fiction based in my setting. This is not just a place for gaming - it is a setting in which gaming happens to take place. That... strikes me as a completely alien approach to world design, actually. I design the world in such a way that it includes elements that interest me and that make sense. Nothing is put there specifically for PCs. This seems to be circular, to me, though I'm not quite able to put my finger on how or why. Things need to be the way they are for a reason. Not necessarily a readily-obvious one, but there needs to be one, and one that is based on the world, not a metagame concept like level. Why are all the threats in the city of brass epic - why are all the [i]inhabitants[/i] epic? The premise of why you need the open lock DCs to all be higher based on tier seems to be based on the idea that everyone the PCs interact with at a given tier is also going to be at that same tier, which seems awkward. That would seem to be the way it is going. We are arriving at the same destination, but again, it is not just results I am interested in, but also processes. [/QUOTE]

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