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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ProgBard" data-source="post: 6772214" data-attributes="member: 6803722">This, yes. Note that this doesn't mean "don't do it"; it just means "understand the extra hurdle you have to cross in order to make a connection on this."It also relates, tangentially, to something that's been itching me in the conversation - there's a great deal of emphasis for some folks in the "integrity" of a setting. Which is fine as far as it goes, and for some values of "integrity." But this also points to a fundamental tension between worldbuilding and GMing. The worldbuilder has made a beautiful creation that they'd like to see preserved. But stories - and therefore RPGs - are about things happening. There has to be at least an element of willingness to let your world go nova - and that means in some ways tossing the integrity of it out the window when necessary. The game can't always be about the GM fighting the players to maintain the status quo of the gameworld, which is something I suspect a lot of worldbuilders do without quite realizing what they're doing.I think it's necessary on some level to understand you're constructing your lovingly-rendered Lego city so that the kaiju can come along in a little while and knock it all down. When you're on board with that mindset, a stray gnome in Athas can feel like a whole lot less of a dealbreaker. Maybe not for every game ever, and of course that doesn't mean every wacky player notion in chargen gets greenlit; but it can give some perspective to least a few of those out-there ideas, and maybe give the GM pause as to whether that's the hill they're willing to die on.</blockquote>

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