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I wasn't arguing. I was explaining how I prefer to play.

No, of course not all tables run that way. It's just my personal preference. Abstracting away the possibility of failure hurts my brain.

An unexpected encounter (the old "wandering monster" idea) is always a possibility. If I have reason to think the players might not know...

There's always a game time consequence; actions don't occur instantly in the setting after all, and whatever time it did take is a...

Those all sound like meaningful consequences to me, and one of them is likely to apply to some degree nearly all the time, so to me to...

See, I love history (real or imagined), so I want the history of the setting front and center. That's the most fun part for me. That...

100+ votes in and only one for someone who virtually never GMs. Certainly points to the idea that this forum is for dedicated TTRPGers...

I wrote about immersion at some length in issue 5 of The Path of Cunning, the GURPS fanzine I co-edit. It's a bit long to repeat all of...

Immersion is my goal whenever I play.

It doesn't add to the game. Rather, it subtracts from the game in that there's less challenge for the PCs, and by extension the...

If you think that the differences races of Tolkien's world are just humans with some minor physical appearance differences, i would...

To be clear, I'm not trying to convince you of anything. If what you're doing works for you, it works for you -- it just happens to be...

Whereas I'm typically fine with status quo as a possible outcome. Sometimes, "no, you're not able to pick this lock at this time, try...

I am (pleasantly) surprised by the amount of love for RM going on in this thread. Even if RMU specifically is of no interest to me, I'm...

I'm sometimes amazed that people will assume a post placed in this subforum still bakes in D&D assumptions in its question, but I...