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Like I said I don't have an issue with any of the above...since we share a lot of it. My contention is not necessarily that GM decides everything but that when I speak of a driving force I don't solely make it the PCs. I recognise my role in that driving force too. Now all of us (players with...

Can you give an example of this? As I can't remember a time where this as come up at my table. The opposite has come up where the monster died before the cool power materialized or recharged but I don't think I've experienced what you seem to be talking about.

Hey @Lanefan my EDIT on my post just above yours addresses where I was coming from. We just cross-posted I think.

Yes that is how it works. A - "Everything" is GM decides B - Not really I use tables A - Yes but you created those tables therefore GM decides. B - These tables are extensive, 2 pages deep And like everything I prep doesn't always see the light of day. PCs aren't forced to engage. And I don't...

Ofc and I do the same too. I did later post as to the reason of my comment.

I have found myself prepping less and less of late...not sure when that started. I have set scenes which we roleplay through, I'm not sure if they should really be called framing. I do not believe they are in any way the type of framing @pemerton produces. So generally I have a few ideas of...

Are you saying the new ST series are lacking magic and that if we used the same writers of those new magic-lacking ST series, their writing would somehow improve to magic-catching quality because it was DS9's continuance rather than the Original or Next Gen?

I was liking what you were saying and then I think you stopped a tad short when you mentioned party context. I really thought you were going to say setting context. For D&D the high magic dial is turned all the way up and if that wasn't enough someone broke it. Thus the ranger and some other...

It was more a comment to something that occurred in another thread where I suggested something and a poster immediately jumped to the worst possible scenario of how players would react. Their comment was indicative about the lack of trust/faith which can occur between GMs and players from both...

Bolded emphasis mine. I'm running Trad Sandbox, so much of what you write if not all is fairly familiar to me, however the best way I believe, that I have achieved the above is by including some player-facing mechanics. I'm not nearly close to the level that some others in this thread are at...

In both instances examples (yours and Lanefan's) interesting events occurred with a supposedly innocuous RE. - who are these heroes who took care of the bandits? Lanefan could potentially use them into the future, just as he used the bandits to expand the setting. - which town did they take...

Apologies I'm not clear what you're telling me here. Are you asking me when did you reply to @AbdulAlhazred or correcting me that you replied to them?

The convo which I picked up began with @AbdulAlhazred (but likely earlier) where they mentioned how much of everything is GM decided, even the bandits in @Bedrockgames RE tables. A conversation about how much content is GM decided was then argued between @Maxperson and @EzekielRaiden, with...

As created by the DM....

As created by the DM...

So I have mate who joined my current campaign for a small stint in OotA. He required a pretty easy enough 10th-level character to play (as the rest of the party are quite high level) and anything complex it just gonna slow the game down. The concept would also have to be interesting, i.e. not...

Thank you for this. I did indeed see portions of a few of your videos and I did pick up on the importance of first-person speaking for your Living World games. I also imagined there were more ideas from LARPing that have been pulled through in the effort to realise the immersive experience for...

So what is the skinny, are people convinced we should keep the Ranger?

Do you disagree that you have a hand in directing play (the emerging story) via the scenes you frame?

I think it is fair to say that there is an element of storytelling that exists within the role of every GM, how much of that role is storytelling depends on the processes used for the emerging story. EDIT: So I'm not offended when @Hussar calls me a storyteller, in the same way that WotC refers...