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Mastery is a loaded word there IMO. Facilitator is probably closer to the actual role (generally speaking). Trying to argue that the GM...

I don't think Arcane Library does 'releases' like this. Despite the popularity of the game they are still a very small design house. The...

I design (and sell) my own RPG stuff specifically to scratch this itch. Video games? Jesus no.

For those of you who have the tech and-or know-how to do so, perhaps. I sure don't, on either count.

I think you should interrogate those assumptions pretty thoroughly. The tilt of the field toward the GM based on prep and 'mastery' of...

I didn't say it was? I also disagree that a strictly procedural approach is just as good at evoking great game play than a well-designed...

:LOL: Oh, I wasn't suggesting that were doing this in any way shape or form. I was simply outlining what seems to be a standard 'move'...

Outrageous! I'm not trying to make my preference central to a discussion of how RPGs should be played. But I am expressing an aesthetic...

I agree. I think the best way is to just take the game you like the most for its base mechanics (Shadowdark in my case) and then slap...

Entirely? No. But a huge part of design for published RPG material is world building, in one way or another. It's not so much that I...

This isn't quite a contradiction. Publishing is something you do instead of playing at the tabletop - and game design isn't world...

Hmm. I agree to some extent, but I disagree that there is some kind of responsibility that devolves on individual GMs to develop other...

IDK, I'm pretty sure that this very thing is what is driving the ongoing explosion of self-published RPG material on DTRPG and Itch (for...

I think that it is a real phenomenon but also a fading one precisely because making video games and mods scratches that itch far better...

I think to be fair I'm going to take some light issue with this. Lots of people play games that might be described this way and find it...