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What proof do you have that this behavior from "many, many GMs" is "irrefutable"? Personal anecdote?

I wouldn't pull too much stock in surveys on this site, the numbers are too small.

That is where we disagree. I do think the DM's vision for the campaign setting is absolute. Player character have freedom but that...

I would disagree. If I truly have no idea what to do I'll tell the players. I don't remember the last time that happened but I suppose I...

"Every" is doing some lifting there. Some people are willing to generate it as they go, even in a sandbox if need be.

I disagree that DMs cheat more, except perhaps to not kill off a character without meaning to do so. There's no more motivation for them...

I'm not sure about that. Railroading is the DM negating player choice to make the players go the route he wants them to go. Overt or...

That's one if the reasons I always roll in the open. I don't want the players to think I'm cheating when the monster crits their...

Yeah. And being railroaded as a term meaning forced has been around since the 1800s when train companies stole land from folks so that...

I don't know that I ever considered power gaming all that bad until it got to the point of borderline cheating. Those people? We called...

Metagaming isn't good or bad, to me it's just stating a preference on how the game works. I'm not even sure what other word we would...

I will just note this is the card that's almost always played by someone who was sloppy with insulting someone else but doesn't want to...

I started way, way back in high school and we ran with the same characters for years. I even started work on the world I still use back...

Time to retire that one character. Not time to sink the whole campaign. Instead, you'd roll up something else and keep going, or take...