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Yes. But, also fully applies to a sandbox or an improvisational game as well. The key point is the GM using some technique to steer...

I think with present technology, all CRPGs are railroads. My favorite CRPG is Mass Effect 1. And it's very much on rails. There is a...

I tend to agree. I write about railroading not as an attempt to set some standard that you can't break, because I break it myself. I...

I can imagine some narrow definitions of it that wouldn't be just GMing, but I am struggling to find a middle ground for the term that...

That is what I'm getting at. Because this "GM force" concept seems to me to put under its tent some highly varied things, from overt...

So, a couple of questions: a) Suppose I prep ahead of time a Stone Giant who lives in the mountain pass as a fixed encounter. Is that...

Honestly, I'm still lost because in the middle of what was already discussion of the definition of one term of art suddenly we were...

That's really about the limit of when you can make play be character driven rather than party driven. I fully agree with one player and...

The problem is that it's quite possible to use a term without having any idea what you mean by the term much less having a conscious...

I should note that with this group when I did a Session Minus One with them, I gave them a questionnaire about their gaming preferences...

"The Expanse" was a campaign before it was a series of novels/TV show as well.

I don't find the two are incompatible. I can verify the players are engaged when they remanence about prior sessions, and it's sounds...

I get it, but just like back in the 1980s, I find that "well, what makes sense" in practice involves playing to the referee or the table...

Yeah, I don't if I'm weird or not, but my goal is always something like, "If this was a television show, would people be entertained by...

The draw steel negotiation model is a formalization of how I've often conduct a negotiation over the years going back till at least the...