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So, as written, this can seem like, "Grin and bear it until it is too much, and then throw a hissy-fit, flip the table and walk out."...

Even if the campaign was supposed to be based on the Hobbit, with the opening scene set in Long Sea during Smaug's attack to establish...

Ok. Just to make things clearer: Who determines if the thing the player suggest is consistent with the fiction? If it is indeed the GM...

I am sorry, but as I said I don't think I have ever encountered a situation that matches what you describe here. In particular the...

For example, by setting expectations in something like a Session Zero. For every campaign, even with my regular group who have been...

@EzekielRaiden This is almost uncanny. Reading your writing feels very much like something I might very well have written myself if...

Perhaps. Yes. Unwritten rules are an invisible spider's web trapping me in place. Written rules are a known structure I can climb on...

Ok, I think you are here talking about a very different phenomenon than most defending GM freedom from rules does. The whirlwind attack...

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...

With respect, social science folks are very clever, and can extract data from what looks like anecdotes. But, also, yes - social...

Sometimes. But, in this case, the player was trying to use their own knowledge to get information their character shouldn't have had...

And this highlights the problem. You highlight a person calling his GM overall good with a single situation complained about as...

I don't agree with your conclusion, but I think you know that by now 😀 Central appears to be our different ideas about the capacity of...

I absolutely cannot phantom their magic being possible without a heavy top down approach. He was very active in our local RPG theory...

So there we have a problem. You have a set of experiences that indicate that the chances of a breach of the unwritten premises of a game...