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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 4701535" data-attributes="member: 40961">1. I got you confused with someone else for a moment.  Sorry about the video game reference comment. 2. The above quote is true in only the most trivial and unimportant sense.  Obviously the inclusion of a thing increases player freedom in the sense that the players can now choose how to interact with that thing.  This would also be true of whatever else a DM might place in the forest instead of the dragon. 3. They are the exact same thing in that you engineered the game in both circumstances in order to accomodate player character level, placing you squarely in the OPs camp A, "The World Exists for the Sake of the Characters," and clearly exemplifying a "level responsive" setting.  It is level responsive both to decline to include a level inappropriate dragon, and to include said dragon while giving the PCs information and options sufficient to make that dragon a plot device that they do not have to face in a level inappropriate manner.These things are true, but they are not relevant to whether or not the game world is being engineered by the DM to better serve the players by ensuring that they do not wander or get led into level inappropriate encounters. Obviously a story with dragons in it is different from a story with, I dunno, fish people.</blockquote>