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I think you are overly focusing on the example I gave here. My point is that you don't need to give the GM power to overrule the rules...

I don't like this formulation at all. The GM is not an entertainer, a storyteller, etc - at least not in my experience of RPGing. The GM...

What's the difference? The game world is being changed as a result of a failed skill check. Had the check succeeded, the rope would...

So, when magical pixies cause the character to fall or succeed that climb check, that's 100% in keeping with sim play because the DM...

As far as I can tell, what's at stake is telling people who don't enjoy GM-driven RPGing (whether as players or GMs) that they have...

This claim isn't true at all, in my view. Trying to infer to social life from nothing but archaeological information is very fraught.

There seem to be an awful lot of posts on reddit that say things like "We couldn't solve the GM's mystery so he said we are all idiots...

I'd say early on I had a fair amount of play experiences I was not very fond of, but it was not because the GM or other players were...

Actually, I set aside my PC and played one of his “NPCs” because that’s clearly what he wanted and I figured I might as well try and...

What percentage of people who play soccer do you think chose that because of a bad experience at a cricket club? What percentage of...

I had a DM who provided us with “NPCs” that he “suggested” we play in favor of the PCs we had. None of us went with it… it seemed an odd...

I don't where this idea that games that have best practices or agenda and principle laid out for the GM are doing so to protect players...

And for someone who is reasonably well trained in the scholarly study and analysis of human cultures, this often produces utterly...

And when I played in a club environment, I recruited players who were fed up with GM authority abuse. There were plenty of them about.

Yeah, as I've noted at least part of the die roll is representing events and situations that are both out of the characters control and...