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Well, I was speaking more about rules for the friend-group's behavior, but yes, that too. That is, I was thinking of stuff like, say, a...

History is not a statistical science. It is our best attempt at assembling some idea of what happened in the past. That idea is often...

And in my experience, social contracts get rewritten whenever it is inconvenient for the person with power to follow them. Guess who...

I have not. Ever. Not once. I frankly find it baffling that such a thing would ever occur.

I could not even begin to speculate; it would be from my hindquarters. Believe it or not, I've actually only had very few experiences...

Are GMs looking to punish players? Punitive responses have been specifically expected if players misbehave. Edit: More importantly, the...

Okay. Anecdotes are such incredibly crappy data that they provide essentially zero actual information, and are instead 99.999% noise...

Whereas I see the extremely simple and obvious fix of "there are rules we agree to abide by" plus "if we choose not to abide by them, we...

So you sometimes defer to your players, or expect the GM to defer to you as a player? How do you avoid abuse? How do you ensure only...

Still doesn't make them data. They're self-selected, which means you can't separate them from their prompting. Or, if you prefer...

And I have to note, not all gaming groups have particular close connections outside of gaming. When I was younger I used to go to...

And even when it is among good, close friends, rules are not some horrible affront. I mean, obviously a crappy rule could be such. Bur...

Ideally, the bolded is the case. More and more, however, it is a game amongst some random people online or at a game store, who were...

So why would you expect the GM of an Apocalypse World game to be different in this regard? And do you think players may be...

Oh, no they aint! Look, there's a whole lot that a credible researcher does to support the integrity of data that regular people just...