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TV: Game of Thrones Black Sails ...err...that's about it Movies: Lord of the Rings (Jackson, all three) Avengers Infinity War and...

Yup. That's how I would handle it, because that's how investigations work in real life.

Their evidence is accepted (and action likely taken) by whatever authority in the setting has jurisdiction and to which they answer...

TV: The Good Place Breaking Bad The Office (US) Babylon 5 Avatar: The Last Airbender Film: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of...

Lots of things matter to me. But in a mystery, I want to find an answer, not create one. Inventing reality as a player in active play is...

And nothing else about the game matters in your assessment? Yeah… we’ll just have to agree to disagree here.

Yes, because the solution to the mystery exists in the world prior to the investigators starting their work. Cause comes before effect...

Not a fan of WotC's game (or WotC themselves, for that matter), so feel free to fire away! That being said, I don't care for FATE or...

I don't see any requirement in a traditional game for the GM to give any sort of objective "confirmation". Whether or not they do...

Not how I see it. As I said, the GM stands in for reality. The Players (through their PCs) stand in for real people. So in a traditional...

I don't know. I've always held Listen Up You Primitive Screwheads up as one of the greatest GM advice books I've ever read.

Yeah. I really think that's too bad. Having downtime makes the experience of exploring the setting through your PC (which is why I game...

I think the lack of downtime means people don't really think about it, I feel like many adventures instead have a story arc and you...

It is a matter of preference, true. However, I don't understand the objection in your second sentence. In what way does the first style...

And that was exsctly the kind of marketing I mesn "Mike mearls is saying" without actual numbers. In the mesntime we did get rough...