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I have to note that the use of "bury" in this sentence is semantically loaded as can be.

I don't expect perfection. I do think its a valid attempt to reduce bad experiences caused by bad decisions. The latter does not...

The key word in this post it "try". There are plenty of people who try to do things that they end up failing at with various degrees of...

Precisely. When there is an actual rule, spoken, in the open, where we can see it? We can criticize it. We can do something about it...

And I've been playing and interacting with gamers since 1975 either directly or remotely, and I've seen plenty of cases where "tolerate"...

Yeah, the people who are big proponents of GM empowerment almost always seem to pull out the idea that managing it implies that most GMs...

EXACTLY!!! The big problem with "place all your trust in the almighty GM" approaches isn't jerk GMs. It's mediocre GMs...

Again, I am not saying "place all your trust in the almighty GM" has never worked for anyone ever. I am saying that your argument of...

I think there's a pretty big gap between "GM is a controlling jerk" and "GM is not good at acknowledging he may have used bad judgement"...

It literally just happened again: I'm not going to trawl through the thread. It happened. Multiple times. People characterized their...

But that is exactly why it is a poor example. If « Less than 1% of people are willing to suffer certain death for their beliefs » than...

No. You are interpreting this as something I did not say. I am not saying that NOBODY EVER can just coast on trust. I am saying that...

I don't see how it has any effect at all on railroading. Just because you aren't assuming the PCs will interact with it, doesn't mean...

I didn't mention railroading at all. My position is that the form of decision making being presented ('there's a world simulation...

Because such a restriction is so ludicrous, I genuinely don't believe anyone would actually hold that belief. It borders on poor-taste...