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May I introduce you to this wonderful invention called the Tardis? It jumps all over the place through both time and space, and it's...

Does it matter that so many of us who favor this style want to play in these games as well? I want the GM to define political entities...

If I'm going out on the ice to play hockey it's a safe bet I'll insist on having a stick in my hands when I do. That I can then...

My bolding. Ah! There we have another one! I might want absolute power as a GM, but that doesn't mean I am very keen on exerting that...

Sure, I don't think that 100% of groups do this. Far from it! But when you have people who are stridently insistent on the specific...

And yet in all four of those examples the "underlings" can suggest ideas or courses of action that the "leader" can then choose to...

When I first sat down to play, back in 1982, there was a sign tacked to the outside of the DM's screen: "THE DM IS GOD. ABIDE OR DIE."...

Speaking as someone who has marked around 1600 exam papers this year alone. It's not that sophisticated, at least for public exams in...

A jerk DM will not retain players for long. Maybe it's a bit different because of online games but for most people it would only be an...

Unless the advanced technology found a work around to the physics. Even now scientists are discovering things, and some are theorizing...

No. Possibly yes, depending on the table. And if the player refused, all it'd take would be a well-placed Helm of Alignment Change in...

You really think that absolute monarchs never talked about anything with vassals? That they never did anything a vassal wanted?

Star Trek uses an explanation that maybe, just possibly, might work. They don't accelerate in the same sense that we accelerate in our...

I would also repeat yet again that the "DM has absolute power" is a (all powerful?) strawman. If I don't provide a style of game my...

Why would it be weird for them to discuss a disproven thought experiment?