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So you don't have absolute power, then? Because you're specifically saying here that players can: Criticize your decisions Expect a...

I mean, if you want a simple example: the complexities of narrating a critical hit in 3e (and to a lesser extent 5e). You narrate that...

Yeah, I noticed the same. If his goal was to say, "hey, in the 21st century, we started designing around what was good for WotC, and now...

I think causality is often messed up if we are thinking just about what we do at the table. Resolving hit locations in RQ being a clear...

I don't feel I added any assumptions. I took you at your word with the toy example, and expected symmetry. The toy-owner was exerting...

Seems like it's rather wasteful then, to characterize all GMs as either perfect angels, someone whose behavior not just isn't...

That was not my read on it, and I neither had any particular skin in that game, nor have a particularly strong preference for...

Quite sure. I'm just also sure that, as much as the GM is entitled to a reasonably limited number of bright lines, players are entitled...

Yeah, this is my biggest objection to the "toss everything left into sim" element of GNS; it lumps together two things that I don't...

We can't just forgive the Forge for helping to make narrativism a popular design goal, can we? :)

But they won't, and can't, because as has already been established, the players can't criticize or comment. Anything they might have a...

There is no "GM of the real world". The real world is not an imaginative leisure activity with role-differentiated participants.

Yes, that was why I constructed the example. I don't think reading my turgid prose is necessary. The simple point was that I had...

Then suffice it to say: If there is a GM of the real world, their existence, nature, behavior, and rules are a matter of EXTREMELY...

Again I do not see any desire for belonging. I see "experience this thing I made." I have already said why "have an experience over...