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The stuff that binds the GM in Apocalypse World and similar games are big picture flow of the game type stuff. It's similar to 5e's...

It was apparently intended as a callback to Smallville. I believe Gunn has indicated that he considers Rosenbaum's Lex the best of the...

I feel that in some ways the tightness of a little of rules in many traditional games both restricts the GM heavily (and the players of...

Yeah, barring a few outliers, I don't think what I'm talking about relates to game style at all per se.

I'd say early on I had a fair amount of play experiences I was not very fond of, but it was not because the GM or other players were...

Anthropology is a social science. Far as that goes, its not super easy to do experiments for some branches of sociology either, but...

Actually, I set aside my PC and played one of his “NPCs” because that’s clearly what he wanted and I figured I might as well try and...

I don't where this idea that games that have best practices or agenda and principle laid out for the GM are doing so to protect players...

Who have you heard this from? Which games did they play? What happened in these sessions?

Matt has been pushing them hard. They got lucky on the risk it all rolls. I'm no longer watching but from internet chatter, I believe...

I think you hit it spot on here. There are tons of factors in how long combat takes (or any other part of the game, for that matter)...

Well, there would be wisdom in considering whether there should be a dispute in that case. "I don't actually know this way is superior...

FKR advocates have setup a boogie man of rigid mechanics to strike down, assuming a given event must be resolved either entirely through...

The fight in question was the first real scene of what was originally planned as a 2-3 session game. I went in with 4 Fear since there...

Sunday I start a campaign.