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The idea is to not give any necessary details, and focus on miscellaneous things until the last mic-drop line. Technique works by...

I see, this makes sense. Now I wonder about, say, a mecha game where all the descriptions are aggressively condensed and even directly...

I think setting up the mood is very important, kind of like there's a reason Warhammer people generally play with nicely painted...

I wave my hands around alot...

I don't think I have a formalized technique, but there's a few things I try to do. I have a cinematic mind. So I always try to have a...

Team Fortress 2 has a very evocative "spy-tech" setting, where retrofuturistic doomsday doodads are hidden in rustic rural environments...

Foolishness deserves punishment. By magicianing some get out of jail free card out of a backside hat, one allows their own foolishness...

I disagree. The text is not dictating what RPGers can and cannot do in the setting. Rather, it is presenting a creative vision of a...

I recently caught myself that I have a favorite description technique, especially in an opening scene or a new location: describe in...

They all are artistic decisions, and I'm charging $50 per face per session for my artistic decisions. If a player doesn't want that...

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Soooo... GM, and by extension, the villain, made a mistake and players set out to rightfully punish this mistake, and that didn't work...

Does it? Must I also seek council when picking the system, when introducing NPCs or when designing a new random table? Do players even...

I personally just make up rules and don't really consult with the players about the changes, merely inform them. I often have to modify...