I do want to make a setting my own, but I’m not worried about making sure each and every thing I do fits within the original setting. By the time I finish a campaign (1 year is typical for me), the setting did whatever our table wanted it to do. Leaving a setting in smoking ruins is a great way to end a campaign.

However, I loved reading this, and it could inform my bull in a china shop gamemastering. If I were going to publish content for an existing setting, that’s different, and I might just make this article my bible.

I still remember the time where we played a Harry Potter based pen & paper and I dared to let a wizard cast spells without a wand. While every Harry Potter fan knows that this is possible since children do all kinds of funny things before they enter Hogwards or that there exists a school called Uagadou where they teach pupils magic without the use of wands (mentioned in Hogwards : Legacy).

In summary in our story the antagonist was a wizard that pretended to be a muggle who would cast illusions and spells without the use of a wand and gained the thrust of the group over the course of the adventure. When the plot got revealed one of my players suddenly got mad that this isn’t possible in the Harry Potter universe which ended up in a heated argument between the players.

Do you have ever experienced similar discussions or do you have any tips to avoid that kind of thing?