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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 7394236" data-attributes="member: 82106">Yeah, I think we're into semantic fine lines on this part. I would call a monster manual a 'game resource' not 'world building' and I wouldn't, obviously, have a problem with it. Particularly since any such book is just &quot;here's stuff you could use.&quot; As [MENTION=42582]pemerton[/MENTION] says, you could say &quot;I'll only use MM monsters&quot; and its still not really world building in the sense that you haven't defined how or where or if any of them are actually to be found in your world, just that all the monsters in it are a proper subset of the ones in the MM (which technically means there could be none at all).Does saying that tend to help elicit a specific kind of world? Yeah, probably so! To that extent there's some very slight world building that might be said to be implicit in it, but I'd call it more 'genre definition' and point out that by your definitions genre almost doesn't exist, its all world building.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 7394236, member: 82106"] Yeah, I think we're into semantic fine lines on this part. I would call a monster manual a 'game resource' not 'world building' and I wouldn't, obviously, have a problem with it. Particularly since any such book is just "here's stuff you could use." As [MENTION=42582]pemerton[/MENTION] says, you could say "I'll only use MM monsters" and its still not really world building in the sense that you haven't defined how or where or if any of them are actually to be found in your world, just that all the monsters in it are a proper subset of the ones in the MM (which technically means there could be none at all). Does saying that tend to help elicit a specific kind of world? Yeah, probably so! To that extent there's some very slight world building that might be said to be implicit in it, but I'd call it more 'genre definition' and point out that by your definitions genre almost doesn't exist, its all world building. [/QUOTE]

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