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Substitute "Gee, I sure wish" with "Guessed". Poe-tae-toe poe-tah-toe.

See, to me the only functional difference between the first bolded piece and the second is that the second only came true after a...

Why do people always feel compelled to tell people that don't like some aspect of the game that they like such as player authoring world...

Their characters are pretty much interchangeable widgets. The players, not so much.

Well, to me it is. Just because something isn't remembered doesn't mean it never happened.

These are clues perhaps, but there is a wide range of abilities here. Michael Crichton is a good acid test. He uses science and...

Strange? None of your players have taken you up on your offer to mentor them? My best game experience as a player was with one of my...

The bolded is a big factor here. The problem with making a bunch of stuff up on the fly is that if-when that stuff does become relevant...

I believe the example that was given was that the characters wanted to get out of a dungeon. The GM narrated that there were runes on a...

I agree that there is a benefit to this. Especially for the players. But for those benefits to be fully realized, the GM has to have...

With this, I agree. But I'm not sure of its relevance to player agency. If all you're suggesting is that the GM keep parts of the map...

Not in any great percentage when compared to all games going on out there. If you group up all of those complaints and put them...

Well, I can tell you that the zero amount of joy you are getting from repeatedly learning that others are not running games the exact...

This is a great example. For the record, I see this as above board, and this isn't the kind of thing that would break immersion for me...

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