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I'm not sure anyone sees anything wrong with the GM choosing. Simply that rolling is the GM disclaiming decision making because they...

The reason I ask is because I find roll under systems feel subjective to PCs, like if in D&D a GM changed the DC based on who was...

I don’t think that’s nearly nuanced enough.

The Black Hack is basically an OSR retro-clone of B/X, so yes. BRP, however, is the percentile system used in Call of Cthulhu, Mythras, etc.

Except, as I said, I do. So maybe you don't want to use absolutes?

I don't see how this whole conversation suggests an unwillingness to try new things. The goal of play seems pretty clearly defined imo...

From discussion here and elsewhere, simulationism seems to label game play characterised by i) giving the imagined world precedence and...

Best I can tell, @pemerton views GM-created as synonymous with GM-driven, where others view a distinction.

A living world sandbox compared to a traditional railroad is not very GM driven. There’s more to GM driven than ‘independent of the...

GMs typically run the sort of game they want to play, so if there's something they value as a player, they're going to use techniques...

I disagree with this. "Telling [the GM] what they were doing" is only the approach part of goal and approach. It's got sod all to do...

Whilst I haven't explicitly advocated it on these boards, I am a proponent of it, but then you seem to consider me "Narrativist-leaning...

Just to make sure, are you perhaps conflating "goal and approach" with BW's "intent and task"? Goal and approach is simply advice to...

Going by the cultures of play article, Gygaxian D&D would be "classic", not "trad", so yes?

The GM has to serve as the senses of the PC, but at the same time, it's simply not feasible to narrate every detail that we actually...