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An encounter.

If the NPCs in the tavern were the only possible source of this information then sure, one can't blame the players for not interacting...

You can't co-author everything. DMs need, and are given, full ability to make decisions on their own without player input. That’s vital...

Of course it is a colaboration! But as a DM I am still sitting alone, seeing in my notes that there is a member of the thief guild in...

I think this “trilemma” presumes the GM’s role is a mechanical; input-output, like a flawed algorithm that needs debugging. But in...

I think the 2024 DMG is much better written and while the text on creating adventures doesn't explicitly call out sandboxes but they do...

No, see, the players aren’t allowed to think, ask questions, use reference guides, make assumptions of any sort, or contribute in any...

LOL. No, they don't blindfold anyone. They even have handy signs at the end of the aisles. What they don't do is give you a detailed map...

No one is ever going to run the idealized pure sandbox. It's impossible. It's the same old "If you don't hit 100% of your goal, you've...

If I'm driving somewhere and the online map shows solid red and a 20 minute delay on my current route, I can bypass the delay by taking...

So, in a Burning Wheel game, would your PC, in the fiction of the game, say “I want to locate an inn with rooms for us, and but this...

As I’ve said, it doesn’t have to be a hostile or combat encounter. A social encounter is an encounter. An exploration challenge is an...

Bringing up neurodiversity here is frankly at best a total red herring and at worst could be seen as rather manipulative (I presume that...

Thanks!

LOL. Try reading the book before complaining about what's not in it. Page 6, Touchstones. "TTRPGs: 13th Age from Pelgrane Press...