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My apologies. I meant the casting part of their class would be simple. I think the original bard was very much like a describe - a...

Don't thank me! People grammar policing others always makes me eye roll. I wasn't going to say anything... but I wasn't completely sure...

Both of these seem oddly conflicting with my thoughts on player-driven play. Coming to the game as an orchestrated event that already...

D'oh. 100% meant "beck and call." Thanks for the edit. Yes. It would. Isn't that the title: Which arcane caster class should be the...

I actually like the idea of the bard as simple. A storyteller with roguish capabilities, that has a few spells at the beacon call.

Middle ground: "DM is god of wee service animals"? :)

Here are some examples - actual play reports - of player-driven RPGing: * Burning Wheel, where I'm the player; you can see how the GM...

You and I mean different things by "player-driven". I mean that the players choose what their PCs do in the game. It doesn't necessarily...

Yeah, I see no reason GM-curated, Player-driven hexcrawl campaigns can't work. Plenty of examples out there that don't demand...

There is a way around this - don't have any throwaway PCs. ;) (Kind of true for some games, definitely not true for others.)

I am not sure these things are connected. I have seen and read about west marches/hex crawl campaigns where the GM created the world...

That's funny. I see the exact opposite advice for the most part. And definitely in the real world, when I talk to other GMs (other than...

I know reading and running Burning Wheel helped alot procedurally due to the fact that BW is purpose built to run player driven sandbox...

I've been running player driven games for more than 30 years. My games always have consistent narrative momentum that makes sense. They...

That's awesome. I am now confused. You do "little or no prep," but your players have "clear ways to complete their objectives." If they...