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Once again you attribute to me things that I didn't say. What I actually said was that agreeing to play a dungeon crawl, where -...

I think the question then becomes... were you and your players desires aligned? I wonder this whenever I see a DM who is dissapointed...

I generally view this as a cure worse than disease scenario. The critique that a player might not know or understand the board state...

Great post. That clears a lot of stuff up and really shows how you do things. On sandrasan's site she has a load of texts under the...

If you want hard crucible then manbearcat and pemerton are your guys, although I think you'd need to change up how you're running the...

I think you difference her though is Rob ids saying he extrapolates without thinking about escalation, or drama. That is a key...

Yeah we're in accord at this point. I have some questions about technique. Your players decide to give up the adventuring life and hope...

We've gone back and forth on this in the 'GM fiat - an illustration' thread. A brief primer for those who didn't read it. A) Are...

I chafe a bit at this because: I can extrapolate based on logic, causality and consistency but BECAUSE OF THE TYPE OF PERSON I AM, I'm...

D&D is not infinitely malleable. It is clearly oriented towards a particular sort of setting - magic-rich fantasy - and tropes -...

This post maybe: https://www.enworld.org/threads/rant-the-conservatism-of-d-d-fans-is-exhausting.712674/post-9658684

Well I specifically wouldn't say that. Or rather, without context it makes no sense to say that because we're talking about techniques...

On contrivance: at some point setting and scenario design needs to happen. Within the constraints of what is possible there will be a...

I reckon the two easiest ways to get Narrativism are through trad play with story fit characters (as you say) or playing something...

Right. This has always been something that puzzles me. It never seemed to me that the sort of stuff I was doing in my RPGing in the...