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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 7338994" data-attributes="member: 82106">Seems to me this part gets to be semantics. I think [MENTION=42582]pemerton[/MENTION] is happy to use the Monster Manual to pick a monster. So, if he picks a mage tower from a module or setting book, is that really any different? He says &quot;I didn't decide ahead of time this was going to be present in the setting&quot; so it isn't 'pre-authored'. You are saying that someone wrote it up, so it IS pre-authored. I don't think there is a clear right or wrong answer to that, but lets just say there isn't an unequivocal one either.So, nobody would say selecting an orc from the MM is 'using pre-authored content' BUT I think we would ALL say &quot;running Isle of Dread is using pre-authored content&quot;, yet any GM could drop Isle of Dread into a campaign on a whim because they need someplace for the PCs to go with their ship (or whatever). The point being that degree does matter. Where is the dividing line, and do any of these activities constitute 'world building' either in the sense Pemerton meant it or in any other sense people might mean it. Again, degree is going to matter here. You could argue that even establishing the existence of orcs is world building, so there's differences in terms of what we're defining too.Semantics is not really that easy... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 7338994, member: 82106"] Seems to me this part gets to be semantics. I think [MENTION=42582]pemerton[/MENTION] is happy to use the Monster Manual to pick a monster. So, if he picks a mage tower from a module or setting book, is that really any different? He says "I didn't decide ahead of time this was going to be present in the setting" so it isn't 'pre-authored'. You are saying that someone wrote it up, so it IS pre-authored. I don't think there is a clear right or wrong answer to that, but lets just say there isn't an unequivocal one either. So, nobody would say selecting an orc from the MM is 'using pre-authored content' BUT I think we would ALL say "running Isle of Dread is using pre-authored content", yet any GM could drop Isle of Dread into a campaign on a whim because they need someplace for the PCs to go with their ship (or whatever). The point being that degree does matter. Where is the dividing line, and do any of these activities constitute 'world building' either in the sense Pemerton meant it or in any other sense people might mean it. Again, degree is going to matter here. You could argue that even establishing the existence of orcs is world building, so there's differences in terms of what we're defining too. Semantics is not really that easy... ;) [/QUOTE]

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