Sorry, just to be clear - you've never GMed a RPG?I have never run any kind of RPG, investigative or otherwise. I prefer being a role-player.
But you have very strong view on GMing technique.
Sorry, just to be clear - you've never GMed a RPG?I have never run any kind of RPG, investigative or otherwise. I prefer being a role-player.
If the GM bring something onto the stage, and the player's take it to matter, then - everything else being equal - in player-driven play, it will matter.If there is no plot line, there is no Chekhov's gun. It doesn't count if you decide the gun is relevant as a participant.
Setting the parody to one side, have you played much Burning Wheel? Or 4e D&D with player-authored quests?I suppose there are game systems and/or styles that allow the player to actually place Checkov's Gun, but those would be pretty rare and weird in actual play.
GM: You guys enter the tavern. go ahead and give me some things you see inside and I'll make note of them.
Player: Above the bar a shining broadsword hangs. Unbeknownst to us or even the bartender, it is Grothmag's Thistle and before the moon is full again, i will use it to slay my old master.
GM: Umm...
Player: Dance monkey. Give me my sword!
If the players are driving play, any plot will be emergent/post-hoc.If the players are the only ones driving play, there still is going to be a plot. If there wasn't a plot to follow, why would you be role-playing such a RPG?
Well, that's too bad. Shouldn't affect whether or not they made a good game though. I played Chill for years back in the 90s.
Sorry, just to be clear - you've never GMed a RPG?
But you have very strong view on GMing technique.
I've watched a lot of movies.I'm not sure its actually necessary to GM to have an opinion on the techniques thereof. If you've been a player, you've certainly been on the receiving end of the consequences of that technique.
I've watched a lot of movies.
What Stanley Kubrick got wrong was
If you understand the actual techniques used, which is dependent on how transparent the GM was being. Count me among those a little sus of armchair quarterbacks.I'm not sure its actually necessary to GM to have an opinion on the techniques thereof. If you've been a player, you've certainly been on the receiving end of the consequences of that technique.
I have never run (or read) Burning Wheel in any of its forms.Setting the parody to one side, have you played much Burning Wheel? Or 4e D&D with player-authored quests?