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It's the difference between: GM: At the end of the corridor are two doors, one on the right and one on the left. and GM: At the end...

OSR tells you to be generous with information, if not outright then in helping the players figure out how they can find it (sages, wise...

I would note that "high-stakes" and "combat" are not intended to be used synonymously. "High stakes" is generally intended to mean, for...

That wasn't what I was intending to say. I'm merely saying that the idea that any DM can be "objective" in how they drive forward the...

You cannot give consent to something you literally don't know and aren't allowed to know.

Sure. Though I don't think it's necessarily about trust, and it's frustrating that it always comes back to this. For me, it's largely...

I don’t think the players think they are being objective or would make claims to that effect.

I think the Adventure Path being a dominant element of play to this day says a lot about this. I don't think it's anywhere near as rare...

I did not say that. I am calling out the fact that you refer to this, consistently, as though it were in any way a defense against...

You'll also get your butt kicked if the other person at the table is actually playing chess.

I think that the focus of play as you're describing it is very much the setting. It's about exploration of the setting. Seeing what cool...

To me, it seems a matter of "the DM is presenting lore, and wanting the player to choose to be interested in a portion of the lore."...

Oh, for sure. I worry about that whenever I run, and I interrogate my own play to see how often I've gone with DM...

It's difficult to say for sure based on what you shared, but going on just that information... there's nothing that speaks to what the...

Yea, I wouldn't agree with that. As long as part of the rules procedure is "describe a fictional state", which will then be the driver...