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Perhaps the social cost is significant (but not overwhelming) for both sides. There's that excluded middle you were talking about.

I believe the example that was given was that the characters wanted to get out of a dungeon. The GM narrated that there were runes on a...

I agree that there is a benefit to this. Especially for the players. But for those benefits to be fully realized, the GM has to have...

Not in any great percentage when compared to all games going on out there. If you group up all of those complaints and put them...

Well, "need" is doing some heavy lifting there. In fiction, no outside force MAKES the author(s) have to jump into anything. The...

Your take on "the traditional GM" is perplexing. I find it hard to believe that anyone who has Identified as a traditional GM in this...

Players are easy. Good players are hard to find. I've moved a few times in the past decade, and each time it takes 3-6 months of regular...

Well, I can tell you that the zero amount of joy you are getting from repeatedly learning that others are not running games the exact...

This is a great example. For the record, I see this as above board, and this isn't the kind of thing that would break immersion for me...

If I want to run a game other people don't want to play, we don't end up playing it. If we do play and I make a call with which a player...

I've played in and run a lot of games where the GM has control over everything in the world except the PCs. I've never had the GM...

And yet in reality that does not happen. Why is that? He has unlimited power given by the DMG, and yet does not ignore the social...

I am not sure about this. When we speak of "THE social contract" on this site, we are usually talking specifically about the social...

Nor is saying "sorry Dave, no Tieflings" free, because Dave is your buddy and you want to have players for your game.

But you don’t find it immersion breaking at all for you to just make up those details on the spot?