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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9280405" data-attributes="member: 29398">Ah, there's a difference between us then: to me there's only one Gorax the Destroyer, and if he's bashing around in my world he can't simultaneously* be wreaking havoc in yours.  And yes, if the Gorax from Speiadeia in my world just appeared in your world, that by extension has to mean he just - somehow - disappeared from my world.* - the exception being if Gorax has been cloned, but IME that's pretty rare...and clones tend to want to kill each other anyway if they exist simultaneously.Well, yes it does if there's only one Gorax.It's a question of treating the characters as if they are real people.I'm saying instead that it in fact does make sense that such cross-world effects can happen if-when characters jump worlds, and that it's unethical to do things that would cause those effects without the permission of the affected world's DM.  Again, it just comes down to asking permission - and not being an asshat if said permission happens to be declined.Except either the imagination of those people or the imagination of the other people is now based on an error, as (barring some really twisty-bendy in-game physics!) Gorax can't be in two places at once.In which case one table or the other isn't being true to in-game causality.</blockquote>