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I was getting so burnt out on classic high-prep GMing, discovering there was a whole world of “sit down at the table and collaborate...

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...

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...

Interesting because to me BIG metaplot does arguably more to freeze a setting and thereby make it boring than merely having a lot of...

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...

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 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...

This isn't quite a contradiction. Publishing is something you do instead of playing at the tabletop - and game design isn't world...

I think to be fair I'm going to take some light issue with this. Lots of people play games that might be described this way and find it...

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...

Absolutely. The game is what happens at the table with all the players (minus holidays, illness, etc.). Design and prep is strictly a...

Absolutely. For me, it's up there with "trade offs" as a completely unhelpful framework for making sense of a voluntary leisure activity...