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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8174556" data-attributes="member: 93670">I generally&nbsp; run my games in eberron or an eberron-like setting becausemagic as a science wide magic provides a structure I can build from as does the world balancing on a precarious razpr's edge of intrigue plotting &amp; mistrust in addition to things like he dragonmarked houses to give room for players to go off script in unexpected ways that allows me to use that as a chance for worldbuilding.&nbsp; Similar applies to darksun (which I have run sometimes).&nbsp; The walled cities are something of islands to themselves but there are themes&nbsp; &amp; norms I can draw on or build off without needing to resort to plot armor &amp; handwaving too much if the players do unexpected things.&nbsp; The setting is very much post apocalypse but was once much more advanced so I can apply magic as a scienceThe overuse of plot armor effectively unmakes a setting for me as it introduces jarring &amp; out of place areas I can't apply logic &amp;<a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MostWritersAreHuman" target="_blank"> most writers are human</a> to build the plot rails in whatever forking direction players happen to go &amp; need to actively steer them away or just ask them not to look behind the obvious curtain tforcing me&nbsp; to keep track of all the retcons continuity porn &amp; gap fill at a much more detailed level.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 8174556, member: 93670"] I generally run my games in eberron or an eberron-like setting becausemagic as a science wide magic provides a structure I can build from as does the world balancing on a precarious razpr's edge of intrigue plotting & mistrust in addition to things like he dragonmarked houses to give room for players to go off script in unexpected ways that allows me to use that as a chance for worldbuilding. Similar applies to darksun (which I have run sometimes). The walled cities are something of islands to themselves but there are themes & norms I can draw on or build off without needing to resort to plot armor & handwaving too much if the players do unexpected things. The setting is very much post apocalypse but was once much more advanced so I can apply magic as a science The overuse of plot armor effectively unmakes a setting for me as it introduces jarring & out of place areas I can't apply logic &[URL='https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MostWritersAreHuman'] most writers are human[/URL] to build the plot rails in whatever forking direction players happen to go & need to actively steer them away or just ask them not to look behind the obvious curtain tforcing me to keep track of all the retcons continuity porn & gap fill at a much more detailed level. [/QUOTE]

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