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Some ways have been discussed but the other part of this is how to become a decent or good DM; the rules and DM procedures model what a...

With the passing of Tim Kask, the OSR lost one of the biggest and most credible progressive voices :(

The sad truth is that players who don’t want to contribute require games with large amounts of GM force to make something workable. A...

And then when new players join, they're spoon-fed everything regardless of whether they need it (as new players, they probably don't...

OK. But if we don't regard risk as inhering in fictional position, then an instruction to the GM like "only call for a roll when there...

I think that for RPGs generally that there's a whole lot to unpack in terms of 'objective risk' as an idea.

At least the way my table interprets the (Torchbearer end of the pool) rules, this is the mental calculus I normally run through: The...

Agreed. Quite a few posters seem to be coming from a background where they design a campaign setting for weeks/months, and then look...

The GM needs to frame the player into decisions that are consequential for the mechanics. I’m bad at explaining how to do this because...

Harder, certainly. But Pendragon did it back in the mid 80s, so certainly not impossible.

You can do Conflict resolution with binary pass/fail rolls (see: the way some people run 4e, or Baker talking about how to frame that...

I have a slightly different perspective on this. 4e combat is pretty dead on, but not for what Mike Mearles (based on his module and his...

Yep. The biggest gripe I have on the 4e bashing is the insistence on using the worst paradigms to evaluate 4e when better ones are...

The whole Keep was horrible 4e design with perhaps the exception of the final fight room. Area after area of full on encounters just...

I think the place to start is, as the GM, to set generative consequences as part of adjudication before the player rolls. That doesn't...