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Clearly we are looking at the asymmetries differently. As we are with so much else. Thing for me is, I got to much of the GMing stuff...

Many are the meetings that could be made better with a "Release the Velociraptors" lever just at the conference room door...

If they're unwilling to accept the possibility of losing, I wouldn't call them "gamers." They're certainly not willing to play any sort...

There is a clear loss condition: It wasn't fun. That you don't understand that others see clear loss conditions speaks volumes about...

I would have used the trailer for "Idiocracy", but there's no comet in it.

The asymmetry of the roles helps a lot, here. Things like "winning is meaningless if I can just decide to win" and "the point of play is...

So how do you prevent yourself from just going beast mode and winning as the referee? How do you maintain that neutral arbiter that's...

I don't know why you'd want to play a game about it at that point, better just to do collaborative storytelling outright. Plus the...

It can't be that hard. There are more people alive today than have ever died.

I am a very competitive person--part of the reason I very much prefer cooperative board games at this point is that I do not like who I...

The only way to lose an rpg is by saying “huzzah.”

Yeah, I put the blame on the traditional insistence on loosely held rules. It's quite difficult to trust the same entity with playing...

On some level, this feels like "I've solved being a good archer and now I want some other problem to solve," but that's almost certainly...

The only real difference is mindset. The actual characters at the table may well be identical, mechanically - they'll just be played...

I know you're not disagreeing, but I've definitely seen the other though; when we started playing D&D 4e, my wife wanted to build an...