Rms

In Glorantha, Steve Perrin said to have trolls speak in a Southern or German accent. I think about that still.

So we see this more and more nowadays. "Why can you imagine a world with dragons but not with <insert dumb crap>?" You can imagine anything. The question isn't whether tacos, guns, wheelchairs, or dragons belong in your universe. The question is "will this world be fun?" Part of being fun is having a coherent world. If you know the world's underlying basis, then you know what fits into it. Being "fantasy" doesn't mean your world needs to be a huge garbage bin where anything can fit in. Let's take Tolkien's Middle Earth vs. Hogwarts. Is Gandalf a more powerful sorcerer than Dumbledore? Well, Dumbledore objectively casts more spells, which seem more powerful, than what Gandalf does. Gandalf never had a Firestorm lasso or Arresto Momentum. But that's not the point. Middle Earth is a completely different universe than Hogwarts. Dumbledore in Middle Earth would need to follow that universe's rules and would probably be impotent. I hate the idea of tacos & sushi in D&D games, because to me D&D is foundationally "medieval europe", and so they should be eating faux medieval food. But in my Call of Cthulhu games they can eat all the tacos and sushi they want. My old boss Lynn Willis used to complain that modern Science Fiction made "every future city seem like a San Diego shopping mall." and there's an appalling amount of truth in that. I don't want my roleplaying or ancient or science fiction worlds to be San Diego shopping malls either. What say you?