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And I've been playing and interacting with gamers since 1975 either directly or remotely, and I've seen plenty of cases where "tolerate"...

Yeah, the people who are big proponents of GM empowerment almost always seem to pull out the idea that managing it implies that most GMs...

I would trust needs to be about particular expectations. Like no amount of trusting a GM will help if they are trying to tell a story...

I think there's a pretty big gap between "GM is a controlling jerk" and "GM is not good at acknowledging he may have used bad judgement"...

The question is, "How well?" Observation in the field suggests for a fair number of people "worked" translates into "is tolerable...

Again you resort to the "just trust me bro" defense. It doesn't work. I'm sorry, it just doesn't. Just because I trust someone doesn't...

Don't worry; I've got you covered.

Like a lot of things in RPGdom, I think that "length of use" is probably one of the biggest points of departure for a lot of people's...

They're better than nothing if you just get a slight balance issue (as almost anyone will when getting older--our semicirculars slowly...

I kind of agree with some other posters this is probably an artifact of the majority of depictions they've been "taught" on doing the...

I'm going to suggest sometimes people, in practice, do set out to deny player choice under some circumstances; you can argue its for...

I'm sure (no pun intended) that this is going to bite me on the ass at some point. Towel holders are a poor substitute.

When I came from Southern California to Tacoma in 1985, you could. Manage fine without air conditioning and almost everyone did. There’s...

I don't think they're using AI Art in that are they? But one side impact of all these new training models is a lot of actual artists...

I'll just note that, as I usually do, that you can trust your GM's motivations and not their judgment, and problems with the later are...