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Trivially easy, in other words.

A tangent to the topic, but I am not sure I agree these are GM roles. Maybe in practice for some groups, these are the same people. But...

I was talking more about actual academic investigation into the topic. For example, I searched hermeneutics and games on a couple of...

This. I'm always looking for systems that relieve me of as much of the "master" burden as possible. I don't want to make a bunch of...

Or even a Master of Ceremonies?

Yeah, more of a Game Moderator than Game Master.

Mastery is a loaded word there IMO. Facilitator is probably closer to the actual role (generally speaking). Trying to argue that the GM...

I too agree with extra attacks being better than extra damage on single attack. maybe cantrips could have followed similar way. at 5th...

I mean, since we're in "dueling anecdotes" territory, that's not how my games work at all. I have one friends-and-family table I'm the...

Didnawannabe.

I think you should interrogate those assumptions pretty thoroughly. The tilt of the field toward the GM based on prep and 'mastery' of...

Gygaxian GMing is not low prep by modern standards. But dungeons are openly artificial and constrained environments where the PCs...

Outrageous! I'm not trying to make my preference central to a discussion of how RPGs should be played. But I am expressing an aesthetic...

I think that it is a real phenomenon but also a fading one precisely because making video games and mods scratches that itch far better...

This argument is silly. You can't run a game without players either, and the fact that there is usually more than one player isn't the...