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I see what you're saying. What I would prefer, in a conversation, would be for people to talk about the approaches they use, rather...

And as both I and @thefutilist posted - in posts to which you have not replied - this is no different from anyone else's RPGing. All...

I love it. People are going absolutely nuts over Steel tests in Burning Wheel - which is self-consciously a game focused on characters...

It seems this is true of all roleplaying games. Can you give an example of a sequence of play (however brief), or technique, where it's...

This, by the way, is why even though I've argued with a number of you in the D&D corner of this thread about some things, is one of the...

What you're describing here strikes me as radically dysfunction. Like, you turned up to play chess, I turned up to play bridge, and for...

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...