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It's because Person B is implicitly the GM, which has more power than A

Because they're running the game and aren't forced to? I mean, honestly, its the same reason GM choices tend to dominate the game in...

I wasn't as clear as I could have been. For some people its the issue that they look like catpeople at all (I realized after the fact...

Because look-and-feel is very important to some people's connection with their game. That's the long and the short of it. This whole...

I'd argue it can represent incentives that can't be properly represented in the simulation otherwise. Its like a fatigue system; a...

There are, however games that do the first part of this, but the only reward is the success of the task itself, which seems at least...

I've never had any tolerance for organ meats, but then, I was a picky eater growing up, and arguably I'm only somewhat better now.

I’m glad to know this. But FWIW, I’d already changed my mind about personal tattoos earlier this year when I found out I have a mild...

One of my favourite meals, that I could rarely have, was liver, onions, mushrooms, and hash browns.

My mother was fond of, and could find in restaurants relatively late (as in, probably the early 70's) liver and onions.

Just finished Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London "Whispers Underground" on a couple cross-country flights. Fun, I like the mystery mixed...

When I look at the reaction to ads or products framing GMing as “hard,” I see something deeper than a disagreement about difficulty. The...

To some extent it would depend on whether I was trying to show bredth of approach, bredth of game type/genre or both. In the case of...

A key feature of free kriegsspiel is - as your post says - the expertise of the referee. The referee makes decisions about what happens...

I honestly think you're underselling how much the effects of internet has accelerated the spread of practices and culture, even the...