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How would you describe, in plain words, the games you run, the story and exploration of setting and character? When I (used to) run Dungeon World, my players being challenge-oriented and true-neutral towards the setting elements and npcs, taught me to push very hard those elements against them...

I find your reasoning insightful from your perspective as DM. I nonetheless think that one strenght of a "Gm decides resolution" is the possibility to indulge in scenes like the OP and have a tense dialogue with a "mad" ruler and the Party on his methods of ruling, with a crescendo of...

Nonetheless, if a pub is present in the scenario, start from there. Always. ;)

Glad to hear that. I'm currently running Trail of Cthulhu and first thing I did was ditching completely the combat system being too fiddly compared to the flow of everything else.

Sure. I will add an underlying dark humourous irreverent tone to the baroque and filthy setting, especially when depicting authority figures. If you haven't, I suggest you to flip thru the (pdf?) pages of the memorable first edition (1986) and have a look at the beautiful and iconic splash...

Have you ever played Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay by the greenish not-so-pale moonlight? ;)

So it seems, at least from my keyboard I think I'd like to run the weird co-starring NPC's to exploit the situation as a consequence to the PC's actions. Me neither. I prefer to foster interest in Players with involvement, not neglect. I'd extend the "introspection" phase also to the Players...

Actually, after giving a look at the pages describing the town, I find the whole encounter quite interesting and unusual. The baron might look monolithic, but is not, IMO, in his conduct of firm leadership thru forced happiness, festivals and prohibition of certain behaviours. Also, as I said...

And let's not forget Gm's also want to have fun. Me, at least. An impulsive action, a failed roll, are opportunities to bring on the entourage of the main npc and develop from there.

Just to point out that the family of the baron is also described in detail, the spiritually broken wife laughs hysterically at anything he says; their son is a self made magic user who wants to craft a way to teleport himself far away from the town, for good. So a lot of stuff going on.

A question: in a sandbox style game, Recall Knowledge/other skills, while approaching an encounter, but before actually engaging it, wouldn't give enough info to the players in order to decide if a monster/situation is within their reach, as in level appropriate, doable?

I believe it depends on what kind of npc is Han, and who gets to "control" him via mechanics or fiat. D&D used to have henchmen, hirelings, mercenaries etc. Vampire allies, contacts, herd etc. Just to name a couple of games.

Quite the opposite here. The memorable moments I have come from PC vs PC situations (when I did not GM). Sometimes a single pivotal confrontation that changed the course of events, some others an ongoing attrition of unconciliable attitudes with the occasional clash, or cross revenge. I...

Cool. I kind of anticipated that, intuitively from reading your posts lately, being me also deciding on starting a PF2 game.

What a hint. Now tell us about it!

Ah ah! Not exactly a king, btw. Moreover when when a missing PC arrived put the guards on fire by magic ;) Just like that

If so, the in-game "consequences" look like the whole setting should consider the party of PC's a main actor to deal with, that isn't afraid to use force and magic aggressively.

Turns out the mad tyrant is a deluded mayor of a decadent village?

Haven't played yet, but Reactions sound more "realistic" to me as separate from the main action turns. Instead a complete compartmentalization of PC/monsters turns, kind of breaks immersion for me.

@CapnZapp , very punctual, as always.