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If it's intentional, yeah, it's a jerk thing. It's not always intentional--at least, I've seen instances that I didn't think were.

Just to be clear: Musical as in garage band, not musicals as in operettas. See, for me playing a TRPG is more like writing a story than...

Yeah, this reminds me of some of my players in Stonetop - their characters have clearly articulated goals, they optimize the fiction to...

This is... Strange. Like, the reason systems are interesting is to present challenges that can be honestly engaged with. If you're not...

I was free-writing fiction before I was ever trying to GM, and what performance I've done has been almost entirely musical. I guess...

Yeah. That does seem to be the trend. Same. As I said above, I had a lot of that in my head already but a lot of things clicked when I...

I don't entirely disagree, but class systems are not notorious for making it easy to branch out.

Only if they think the game is boring. (Seriously, this is a crap line and I'm sick of seeing/hearing it.) There are real fundamental...

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...