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The advantage and/or inspiration to which you are referring is a reward to the player for what the GM considers positive behavior. It...

This will probably make me sound like a dummy, but that's normal for me... I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Is it possible for...

Say rather that all that reads as "meta" to me, as in unconnected to the setting in which play takes place. It is a level above the PC...

I think Micah is talking about diagetic rewards -- that is, following a characters motivations leads to rewards in the fiction, not on...

But, Inspiration and Advantage are mechanical effects, aren't they? Those are both mechanical things. So called "setting stuff" would be...

Inspiration, Advantage, Bonus XP As to Why - It incentivises players to proactively pursue goals

Just because there's a high stakes situation simmering away in the background doesn't mean the PCs have to specifically engage with it...

I run player driven campaigns pretty much exclusively. There can be GM driven segments if the players actively pursue such things, but...

Even in a player-driven game, it's still the GM's role to determine complications and to frame opposition to the player's goals. The...

It depends on the game. Eg in our Traveller game, the character are all part of a ship's crew, and so are all "there" where the ship is...

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We have a formal HR process, starting with verbal warnings, escalating to written warnings, before the final sanction, which is ejection...

I can do that in Greyhawk.

I don't think you can say it better than this. I have almost 50 years in gaming. A ton of that is in D&D. There are so many things to do...