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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Emerikol" data-source="post: 8256988" data-attributes="member: 6698278">Short answer: Yes.Long answer:Recorded or abstracted.  So weather or random monsters could be defined as a table you roll on for any given day.  Although with weather I'd probably still like it rolled in such a way that it's realistic but that is more about realism than living world.   And when I say realistic, I really mean just plausible and not super scientific.  I have no issue though with DMs that want to declare their worlds as different than ours on fundamental levels.   I do that on occasion but not with weather.So the DM should know a good bit about the off camera world and it should be changing over time.  That is the minimum for me to think it is a living world as I've used the term.   The off camera world is the world unseen by anyone during an actual play session.</blockquote>