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the game is pretty darn clear on what is what and where you’re walking the edges. Once in a while there’d be a question of “is this A or...

(Also deep cuts fixes all this)

This sounds very off to me. It sounds like players trying to angle to use their best action rating for as much as possible. Yes, players...

Assuming equal skill on the parts of Laura and Liam, it can go either way… but I tend to lean toward Liam as being more likely to...

An example from something I did for publication. This is the set-up for an adventure of mine called Unseen Alchemeticals. The important...

Yeah idk, the book is widely accepted to have some serious organizational issues which maybe results in people getting a little lost...

I design and publish my own stuff, so to some extent the answer here comes from that experience as well as prep I do for my own personal...

Yeah, running Blades in the Dark a few times taught me that the way it structures a city-by-districts with a handful of points of...

I'm not actually contesting the idea that good prep by an experienced GM leads to internally consistent setting deployment. I was only...

You know how we enforce internal consistency in my hundreds of hours low-prep game? Lots of notes to reference the fiction on, a Miro...

In A Wicked Age; Wuthering Heights' Cthulhu Dark (at least as I've played it). Sorry, I couldn't help myself . . .

Are we assuming that the boatload of prep is specifically relevant to play? Lots of prep isn't really. There's also the question of...

I follow the rules of the game I'm playing. For instance, 4e D&D connects treasure parcels to levels. So when I was GMing 4e D&D, as...

Huh? How did your claim about the comparison of running a session to a lesson-plan like outline suddenly turn into a licence to make fun...

That’s like, your opinion man that you’re casting as truth. My games with a sketch of potential at most have been far more engaging for...