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<blockquote data-quote="Obryn" data-source="post: 4674907" data-attributes="member: 11821">No, I'm presuming you're not crazy.&nbsp; You are however treating it as if there were an independent reality to it.But if that later play didn't materialize?&nbsp; Or the DM said there would be further play but was actually lying about it?&nbsp; That's what I don't get.&nbsp; In both cases, the fact of the matter is the same - and it's your decision to treat the game world with any given degree of legitimacy.I have to ask - why not have several campaign worlds?&nbsp; Wouldn't it be freeing in some ways?I think it kinda does matter.&nbsp; By writing it down, you're asserting that the act of writing it has made it semi-permanent.If you have written in the Wiki that Bob is the head of the thieves' guild in some remote city, and you instead say that Adam is the head of the thieves' guild in a session, and neither Bob nor Adam have influenced the game in any way... I don't know that there's a value to keeping consistent to something that has never come up in the game and has never passed your players' minds.&nbsp; I don't see how an edit would destroy the game world's integrity or what have you...At what point does an idea in your head become canonical for the world?&nbsp; On the point of imagining it?&nbsp; On the point of writing it down?&nbsp; Can you later change your mind about it and revise?-O</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Obryn, post: 4674907, member: 11821"] No, I'm presuming you're not crazy. You are however treating it as if there were an independent reality to it. But if that later play didn't materialize? Or the DM said there would be further play but was actually lying about it? That's what I don't get. In both cases, the fact of the matter is the same - and it's your decision to treat the game world with any given degree of legitimacy. I have to ask - why not have several campaign worlds? Wouldn't it be freeing in some ways? I think it kinda does matter. By writing it down, you're asserting that the act of writing it has made it semi-permanent. If you have written in the Wiki that Bob is the head of the thieves' guild in some remote city, and you instead say that Adam is the head of the thieves' guild in a session, and neither Bob nor Adam have influenced the game in any way... I don't know that there's a value to keeping consistent to something that has never come up in the game and has never passed your players' minds. I don't see how an edit would destroy the game world's integrity or what have you... At what point does an idea in your head become canonical for the world? On the point of imagining it? On the point of writing it down? Can you later change your mind about it and revise? -O [/QUOTE]

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