should the game world act the way the players want it to?

 Consider a pretty common scenario: players meet a monster and want to manipulate it into doing something. They have a spell or ability and are trying to use it in an unusual or counterintuitive way to achieve a result the DM does not expect. When does it do what the player wants it to?

A few things I keep in mind for this decision:

1. It's fun and rewarding for player to have agency and get a result they want

2. Players make sense of things differently than the DM might make sense of things

3. DM's job is also to create an appropriately challenging experience. Denying a result will make an experience that feels more challenging, whether fairly or not

4. A world that works consistently and in a way that matches our reality will reward lateral and creative thinking, thus creating a more engaging game

5. In fantasy, there are physics that have no analogue to real life, and cannot be modeled through common sense.

6. In real life, sometimes the world behaves in ways that don't make sense to us, because we don't see the whole picture. This is true in video games as well -- we hope that our new spell or gun will work in some way, or that physics will interact together in a particular way, but in fact they do not. 

7. Sometimes the player simply has a bad idea

8. Sometimes, the DM might have an unconscious or difficult to articulate reason for why something shouldn't work the way a player wants. In my experience I've sometimes found that reasons might lie in barely perceived interactions with other game mechanics. Sometimes there are other reasons.

9. The DM might want to provide a certain aesthetic experience that resists something working the way the player wants it to. 

10. When the DM doesn't allow the world to act in the way the player wants, the player may feel as though the world is intractable or unresponsive, or that the DM is being hard-headed or stubborn instead of reasonable, particular if the reason doesn't make sense to the player

11. A world that feels intractable to the player is probably the worst possible outcome. The greatest strength of role playing games is complete freedom of imagination, so a break-down in that aspect is really undesirable. As game narrows in tractability, it becomes less and less engaging, until player will disengage and do the next most interesting thing to them, or if nothing is available, find a way to cope with the situation. 

12. A tool that can be used here is the relationship between player and DM. If DM can communicate that they realize that the outcome may be disappointing, or any other variation of what is going on for them in the moment which maintains the emotional connection, this can really ameliorate some of the bad outcomes. 

With that in mind, I tend away from automatic "yes" and maybe hew a little too close to automatic "no." It's been helpful for me to experiment with playing games that are really built around collaboration and lateral problem solving, like White Hack. In 5e D&D, players are so powerful that I tend toward no. I wonder if this could be improved on my part?? On the other hand, see point 8 above.

Makes me wanna play more White Hack.

THE ICE PALACE

 When you go into the Ice Palace the first thing you see in the ice encrusted first chamber are these statues of kings. They’re about twice as big as you are and sitting on thrones made of ice. The floor here is slick with ice and the color of a white sky about to snow. You can’t see yourself in it. There’s a door between the kings all frozen over with a sheet of thick ice. It’s formed a thick crust and you can barely see the cracks where the door fits to the icy walls. You can see your breath steaming out from your scarf. But when you draw the golden scepter with the ruby at the end and swing it like a club at the door the gout of bright fire that pours out makes the ice give way in slabs of ice that slide to the floor leaving streaks of cold water that run underneath your feet, making the floor even more slippery. The door is decorated with gold traceries that form symbols you’ve seen before, in the other palaces. The door opens inwards when you push it with your palm, and you can find yourself in the long hallway covered in dark ice which shines like crystal and glass in your cool light pouring from the lamp fixed to your belt. 

neural network swamp of monsters

 Nick made like a neural network or something and plugged a few of my posts into it and sent me the results. I don't really know what's happening here or how it's able to do this but it seems like he's made a captured demon or spirit and has taught it how to write in my style and is making it make up scenarios. Check this shit out.

THRICE CURSED PRISON GENERATOR

1 Three men chained together - some prisoners standing around in chains (d6) with a couple guards directing them. 2 In a stone vat the size of a kid’s tub (but deeper) is a pink jelly, suspended in there are electric eels. 3 Many prisoners in a complex queue from door to door which forms a maze - movement in this room is difficult because there are so many people. 4 A large crowd of people milling about and shouting at each other. They all look unhappy. There's no sign of any guards or orderlies here. 5 The same as 4 but there's one guard who looks like he has lost his mind. He keeps trying to hit everyone with a stick. 6 All the prisoners have been stripped naked except for their shackles. Their clothes were taken away by the guards before they left. 7 A small group of prisoners are being fed through an opening into another room where they're put on display. 8 A huge crowd of people watching a fight between two guys wearing boxing gloves. One guy punches really hard while the other blocks it. 9 Two groups of people, both dressed very differently, are arguing. Some of the women are carrying babies and toddlers. 10 There's a big building full of people sitting down, waiting to be processed. 11 People are lying face-down on tables that are covered up by sheets. 12 An enormous open space filled with hundreds of people all facing outwards towards a central area. At first glance, it seems to be a giant arena. But when you get closer you can see that most of these people aren't staring at anything; they're just looking blankly ahead. 13 Men are chained hand-to-hand to a wall in a long row. Each man is holding onto the chain of the next prisoner. 14 A group of men working together, digging something out of the ground.

"Also here: d4+3 knights, d6+1 guards, 2d20 slaves. They are all loyal to Pallid Gross. The only way to escape is to kill everyone else and make it look like an accident. "

44 A huge stone room with a gigantic statue of some god or other. It's made by stacking up thousands of small stones. 45 A man is chained to the wall. He has no clothes on. 46 The walls are covered in graffiti and blood. 47 There are two rooms, each containing 3 prisoners. One prisoner is chained to the wall in each. 48 Two men are sitting in chairs facing each other across a table. 49 The floor is strewn with broken glass. 50 This building is full of doors, each leading to another room. 51 In a large open space there are tables and chairs lined up. 52 Several dozen men are gathered together in a crowd. 53 All the prisoners have been stripped naked except for their shackles.

Pretty good and accurate but could be weirder, so he moved on to:

 THE SHATTERED LABYRINTHS OF ILLITH VARN GENERATOR

AFTER THE SKOROS ORB IS RECOMBINED: The Skoros Orb Beholder can be challenged in the chapel, and must be beaten down before the party can proceed to the next level. Connections to: The Purple Dragon. Level Three. Level Four: The Tower of Life, the Pit of Death, and the Great Maze. LEVEL FOUR A vast maze, full of death traps, and a few living creatures. A tower of light, filled with angels, and a pit of darkness, filled with devils. The home of the Blue God, who is mostly nice, but can be very mean. BOSS: THE BLUE GOD: A chaotic god, whose power comes from the three aspects of his being: Light, Dark, and Chaos. He doesn't like to fight. But he will if you challenge him. A small dragon, a little more powerful than a regular one. He's a bit of an asshole, and likes to play tricks on the PCs. Connections to: The Pit of the Damned. Level Five. THE PIT OF THE DAMNED: A bottomless pit, filled with the souls of the damned, who are imprisoned by the evil gods of Hell. The place is the home of a powerful demon, who has been trapped there for centuries. The Tower of Life: The tower is a prison, and the only way out is to defeat its guardian, the Angel of Life, who can be found at the top. Once the angel is killed, the prisoners may escape. The Tower of Life is connected to the Pit of the Damned by the Bridge of Souls. BOSS: THE ANGEL OF LIFE: A big armored guy, who looks really happy most of the time. The Tower of the Damned: The tower is a prison, and the only way out is to defeat its guardian, the Devil of Death, who can be found at the top. Once the devil is killed, the prisoners may escape. The Tower of the Damned is connected to the Pit of the Damned by the Bridge of Souls. THE GREAT MAZE: A maze, full of monsters. A huge room, with a staircase leading up to a door that leads to the outside world. A hidden chamber, where a great deal of treasure is kept. Connected to the Pit of the Damned by the Stairway of the Dead. BOSSES: THE DEVIL OF DEATH: A fiend, who is always in pain, and who can cast 9th level spells. THE MONSTER KING: A giant monster, a combination of many different types of beasts, with the heads and bodies of each type of beast. It's covered in spikes, and breathes acid, fire, lightning, and poison. Its eyes glow red when it's angry. Connections to: The Great Maze, the Tower of Life, the Pit of Death. THE STAIRWAY TO THE DEAD: A secret passage, which connects the Great Maze to the Pit of the Damned and the Tower of the Damned. The entrance is disguised as a statue, and is guarded by the statues of two dead people. THE TOWER OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS: A temple, full of candles, in which the Blue God dwells. A lot of powerful magic. Evil angels and devils, who are also the guardians of the tower. BOSSES: THE ANGELS: High-level demons, who have been banished to Hell. They're all pretty nice, but they'll still try to kill you. Some of them can use magic. The Devils: Low-level devils, who were sent here by the gods to keep an eye on the Tower of Light and Darkness. They are not very bright, but they will fight to protect their home. THE BLUE GOD: A chaotic god, whose power comes from the three aspects of his being: Light, Dark, and Chaos. He doesn't like to fight. But he will if you challenge him. Connections to: The Tower of Life, the Great Maze, the Tower of the Damned. Level Five. Level Six: The Temple of the Gods, and the Throne of the King of Hell. LEVEL SIX A series of temples, full of gods. A throne, with the body of a man, who is the king of the devils. A lot of powerful spells. BOSS: THE GODS: All the gods of the Pantheon, except for the Blue God.

HERES ANOTHER ONE

WHAT IS THE DEEPEST HISTORY OF THIS PLACE? The history of the place goes back much further than any of us have lived. It is a kind of nexus, center point, and crossroads of many different worlds, realities, and planes. The mountains of hunger were once a great ocean, and the seas of blood were once a vast desert. This land was the birthplace of the gods, and the home of the Titans and the Giants. The gods created the Earth and the heavens, and the first humans. The Great War between the Gods and the Titans destroyed the world, and the survivors fled to the stars. A long time passed. Eventually, the gods and the Titans reconciled, and the Gods returned, and the world was remade, and a new order arose. All things changed. In the distant future, the gods will destroy the world again. But this time, they must come to the aid of the human race. The Shatterstone of Ice, the Palace of the Sun, and the Tower of the Dead: As the sun rises over the horizon, the tower appears as if it is made of ice, with the palace at its base, and the shattered stone at the top. When the sun sets, the tower disappears and the palace and the broken stone reappear. A hundred years ago, three young men of the village of Rethnor set out to explore the nearby ruins and dungeons of the castle. They found the entrance to a hidden passage and descended into a dark tunnel, where the light of their torches revealed a large chamber filled with statues. There was also a strange altar, and a door. The three explorers searched the room, but could find nothing else of note. One of them, however, noticed that the floor beneath the altar had a peculiar quality to it, as if there was a hole in the ground. He approached the altar, and cast a spell of detection upon the area, which showed a number of tunnels, some blocked off by doors, others leading to other rooms. The explorer opened the closest one to see a staircase descending into the darkness. The second and third explorers, who had been searching the rest of the chamber, joined him at the bottom of the stairs. Together they explored the passages and found more chambers, and eventually came upon the room that had been discovered earlier. Here, the walls and floors were covered in runes, and the air was thick with the scent of sulfur and decay. The explorers did not venture farther. Instead, they retreated to the secret stairway, and climbed back up. The next morning, the two remaining explorers went back down the stairwell and continued exploring the ruined castle. The first adventurer, now sickly and weak, decided that he would not risk the dangers of the dungeon again. The other, however, felt drawn to continue his explorations. He followed the other adventurer's torchlight through a doorway, and emerged in another hallway, whereupon he saw the figure of a woman standing before him. She was tall, beautiful, and clad all in white. Her hair flowed like molten gold, and her eyes seemed to glow from within.

AND ANOTHER -- for this one he says he would let it generate, and then he would write something weird to balance out the generic fantasy stuff, and let it continue

WHAT HAPPENED EVEN BEFORE THAT?? Well, before all this, there were some people who lived in the mountains, and they made a deal with spirits of the air to live in peace and prosperity. The spirit of the mountain gave them a great gift: immortality. But the price of this bargain was that their children would be born with wings, and fly away to join the rest of the birds. So the mountain became known as the Mountain of Wings, and it was a place where all kinds of creatures could come together without fear of harm. It was a very nice place. The mountain also granted its inhabitants the power of flight, so that they might travel anywhere. But the mountain hid a terrible secret: the true creator of all reality was buried there, tormented and shrieking. His name was Uldru, and he hated everything. He had created the world, but it wasn't perfect. There had to be a balance between good things and bad things. Everything needed to have the proper amount of both. It did not. And so he set about exterminating the gods. First, he took the god of love and replaced it with the god of death, who was just as cruel and capricious as the original. Then he took the goddess of beauty and replaced her with the goddess of ugliness, which was just as ugly and horrible as the first. He castrated the god of war and named him Peace. He dismembered the goddess of wealth and named her Desperation. He burned the land with fire and blighted the seas with disease. All this was done by his own hand, and for his own amusement, and Uldru laughed and laughed until the tears flowed from his eyes and his belly ached. Then he went back to sleep. What happened next? The gods of the pantheon began to realize what had transpired. They gathered together and decided to confront the evil one. The god of love was called upon to destroy Uldru, but the god of death refused to help him. Instead, the god of death told the other gods that if they wanted to defeat Uldru, then they must find a way to bring about the destruction of the world. They agreed. And so they reached into the heavens and pulled out the sun, and it fell to earth and was destroyed by the god of war. This left only the moon, and the moon was too small, and the gods couldn't get enough force from it to do the job. They caged the moon and ridiculed it, and stabbed it thousands of times. Then they flew out to the stars to begin the search for a new home, but they were afraid that the universe had ended. The god of war cried and begged the others not to leave, but the others ignored his pleas. They found a planet in a distant system and settled there. They began to have children, and the children began murdering the gods. The god of love was the last to die. When he realized that his children were killing the other gods, he tried to stop them. But his children killed him, and his body exploded like a bomb, leaving nothing but pieces of bone. The gods fled to another star to escape the wrath of their children, but the child-gods followed. And the children hunted the gods across the universe, destroying them wherever they could find them. The children finally caught up with the gods in the outermost reaches of the galaxy and slaughtered them. Only the god of love's bones remained, floating in space, alone. And there are no more gods of any kind in the universe.

WHAT IS THE NAME OF THIS GALAXY?? It is known as the Galaxy of Light. There are many worlds within it, and each has its own name. Each world's name is a horrifying obscenity, and to learn any one of these names would cause insanity and suicide. And there is a man here, a being who calls himself The Dreamer, who claims to have been born on this world. He says he can show you the true nature of reality, and the true names of the gods. The truth is far worse: he is a demon of the deepest darkness, whose power knows no bounds, and the knowledge of which could destroy all of creation. He is also a liar and a thief, and will steal your soul. THE DREAMER HAS SPOKEN TO ME. I AM NOT SURE WHAT HE WANTS FROM ME, BUT I KNOW THAT IF ANYONE CAN SHOW ME THE TRUTH, IT MUST BE HIM. AND SO I HAVE COME WITH YOU, MY FRIEND, FOR A TIME. AFTERWORD: I am a bit late to the party, but this book was originally intended as an expansion of my story, 'The Lost Gods of the Universe'. It started out as just that, and then grew to be something horrifying and cursed, which I regret. The main reason for the change was because the original was already written, so it was much easier to just start over with the same characters and setting. In the end, the result was a very different work from what I had planned.

Then Nick wrote three sentences of a fake article about google inventing a gun and it made this

 Then he fed it a porno review that was originally this

and it wrote this

He also uses a vibrator inside her cunt, which causes another orgasmic explosion. It ends with him fucking her mouth while he continues to torture her tits with electricity, making sure that there will be no recovery from this session! * * * I am not going to lie... I was pretty excited about this one. I have always wanted to try Device Bondage, so I jumped at the chance to review it. But as much fun as I thought it would be, it didn't quite live up to my expectations. So what went wrong? Let's start with the good stuff. When you think bondage porn, you probably don't picture a girl tied upside down on top of a metal frame. That alone makes this video worth watching. And let me tell you, Brooke did look amazing hanging upside down like that. Plus, I really liked how they used the whole frame to hold her legs together. This made it difficult for The Pope to do anything other than fuck her pussy or her ass. And if you know me personally, you'll already know that I love getting both of those holes pounded hard. There were times where Brooke looked so damn cute hanging there, just waiting for The Pope to come over and give her a proper pounding. Then again, sometimes she looked downright miserable. Sometimes she was crying because of pain, or fear, or even pleasure. All of these things added to the overall experience, but none of them seemed very realistic. Now, onto the bad part. First off, the sex itself wasn't too great. Sure, it was hot, but it lacked something special. Maybe it was because she was so tight that it felt like every thrust barely got into her. Or maybe it was the fact that the only positions they tried were missionary and cowgirl (which is fine). Either way, I found myself struggling to get fully aroused. Also, the sounds were pretty distracting. You could hear everything from moaning to screaming during the entire thing. Not exactly what I had pictured in my mind when reading the description. Lastly, the ending left me wanting more. Yes, I loved the last scene, with her being fucked in her mouth by The Pope while he tortured her tits with electricity, but it ended before my eyes exploded in ecstasy. Again, I mean, I'm a guy who loves seeing girls get fucked in the face. But I still want to see the actual climax. Not some fake orgasm from a vibrator inserted into her cunt. At least it was kind of sexy, though. So now we're back to the question: Was Device Bondage worth the money? Well, the answer is yes. It is definitely entertaining. If you are looking for some bondage porn to put on your device of choice, then this is the right one. However, I wouldn't recommend buying this unless you are okay with the price tag. If you are willing to pay $10, then go ahead and pick it up. If you are willing to spend more, then wait until the price drops. Overall, Device Bondage is a decent purchase, and I would definitely consider picking up the next installment. * * * If you enjoyed this review, then please take the time to check out our website. We have many more reviews, as well as articles on topics such as BDSM and Fetish. Please feel free to comment, and let us know what you think. It iz awl! This is the first episode of the new series 'The Adventures Of Bunnies & Burrows' which follows the adventures of two bunny rabbits, Bubbles and Bloo. They are joined on their journey by a little white mouse named Paws. Together they must overcome the trials of life, and learn to be brave and true friends. In this episode Bubbles is feeling lonely after spending all day with her family.

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