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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imaro" data-source="post: 6167261" data-attributes="member: 48965">The GM creates the Icons.  And I would also say that he doesn't have to create specific Icons, in the same way no set location is guaranteed to exist, when creating his own setting. Emphasis Mine:  But this isn't a part of 13th Age.  If you run the game like that more power to you and if this was a part of the actual rules I wouldn't be disagreeing with you, but it's not.  It's something you've chosen due to your particular play style, which is cool but it's not a part of 13th Age. Thank you for the definition, and while I agree with portions of the above my biggest point of disagreement is that IMO, simply making a decision and seeing what happens is not what I would classify as world building... interacting, yes... building, no.  I take this stance because if true then everything is wordbuilding... and the definition is so broad that it ultimately doesn't mean much.  I mean taking your definition above as a guideline... Let's say the DM puts a trap with a poison needle in a dungeon, then a rogue tries to pick the lock and gets pricked resulting in his death...  Hey the rogue just participated in worldbuilding because he discovered that if there's a trapped lock(element A) and it goes off while he is picking it(element B)... he might die(revelation about the world).  Am I misunderstanding the definition here?  If not then what is the difference between building the world and interacting with it?</blockquote>

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