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Thank you. That is how I characterize myself as a GM.

The term has shifted over time, then; the point with the epithet thrown toward certain kinds of GMs was that they either completely...

I was around during the period of the viking-hat GM; Michah's description makes him top down and traditional, but believe me there's a...

Given the differences between 2e, 3e, 4e and 5e D&D, those seem more like new games in many ways rather than new editions to me.

Marvel and DC do add new characters, they very often just don't become popular enough to last and join the ranks of the famous...

I personally do not buy that 5E is a forever edition of D&D. I think we will see a "proper" 6E with 5 years as the "5E generation" ages...

I was clearly responding to @GobHag. Dancing monkey is their term.

Do you GM much? If so, how do you feel about being a dancing monkey GM? Is that a "bad you can accept", or only when it's not you?

No need Thomas. I know your style is speaking, "for the people". And you know how little importance I place on popularity, and how much...

The key word here however is "slow". I'll give you we don't have the full Viking-hat GMing habits as commonly as we did a half-century...

I think that ignores the most important aspect of sim: the rules are serving as (for lack of a better term) the physics of the world...

We can, but my experience with the poster to whom I am responding suggests that they are at least as extreme in their preferences as I...

Exactly right, which is why if I have a dispute with a player over whether or not a given circumstance in the game makes sense in the...

My answer is that it doesn't matter even slightly if it's right. It matters if it feels right, or feels like it might be right. It...

Having to have a book with you is not an inhuman level of required system mastery.