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Nope. RPG does not mean D&D. To you maybe, but you are not everyone. I know that because I am not you, nor am I as limited in my thinking as you are, obviously. Again. Your limited experience is telling. You should expand your horizons. With this I agree. That's why I am so very confused by...

Age of Shadow, OpenQuest, Burning Wheel, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplaying, The One Ring, among others. No way anyone should assume that it was D&D. Nope. I was laughing at the idea that because you posit that by limiting playable races I would somehow want the players to be limited in any other...

Where in the OP does it say the system being used is D&D?!? Hahahahahahaha!!!

I have to disagree as I used to run very player driven campaigns using D&D, older editions, but still D&D. I also still run very player driven games using systems that have no mechanics for providing incentive for the players to world build. I have just found that most players aren't all that...

If you mean "god" as in "will only run games I find interesting and fun" then absolutely YES! If you mean "god" as in "will force players to do something they don't want to do" then absolutely NO!

And yet, I feel as though I have conversed with posters on these forums who really do think the GM is there only to serve their needs. The word "compromise" gets bandied about alot, though the comprise always seems to be to just give the player what they want. Or even better, to completely alter...

I think WotC should pull a Disney Star Wars move and obliterate the DL canon and reset the setting to the War of the Lance. Then all the things can just be "legends" that may or may not happen or may or may not have happened. Or they could do the Hollywood standard and have a new version of DL...

See, and I am one of the weird ones that thinks if the end of an adventure (and the scenes between beginning and end) is already predetermined then the adventure is a railroad. But I do realize that many people believe otherwise. Oh well, to each their own I guess.

WHAT?!?!? How is that even possible?!? If all the PCs are human how would that even work?!? All the PCs would be exactly the same!!!

Plus, Mystara is yet another kitchen sink fantasy setting. Sure it's a little bit different from the other kitchen sink settings, but still way more like them then not. Dragonlance is something different.

Dragonlance! Kender!!! Yay!!!!!

That would be the best way if one were to want to directly emulate the TV show. Each set of main characters would be a group and the players would have a PC in each group. So one group with Cerci, one with Jon, one with Daenerys, one with Tyrion. That actually would kind of be a fun way to play...

Well, I'm not running a GoT game, so my knowledge of the setting doesn't matter at all. Apologies if my lack of interest in the setting upsets you. In my opinion, GoT ain't nothing special, it just happened that the HBO series was very popular. In my humble opinion, mostly because of the...

Oh. No. I stick with what the dice say, no fudging for this GM. I also go with BW's Let It Ride rule in all games I GM.

Not D&D per say, but definitely the "traditional" setup where the GM is in control of the narrative unless they voluntarily allow the players to add things to the narrative. I do love Burning Wheel, but try convincing people to play it. I would love to play more Mouse Guard too, but I believe...

Well as a total improv GM, every time I add a component to the narrative I am applying Force, right? Simply because there is nothing written in stone before it hits the table. That means every single time I add a component to the narrative I am subtly nudging the narrative in the direction I...

Oh bloody hell! Now I'm not sure if I run railroads or not! Stop messing with my head!!!

Well in the context of the show, Players #1, #2, and #3 definitely chose concepts that aligned with the characters that featured in the main storylines. GoT, the TV show, is not at all about the peasants, it's about the Knights and Nobles, at least the show I watched was. Sorry that you don't...

I think narrative momentum would point to yes as the more the players affect the narrative, the more the affected narrative is a result of their agency. Does that even make sense? Well, it does to me! Hahaha! How so? If the players have agency, isn't the GM forced more and more to change the...

Well, one out of three players got it wrong, the other three got it right. Player #4 was given the chance to get on board and decided not to, do you still think one player's wants outweigh what the other four participant's want? If yes, then why am I as the GM the one that must lose out? Because...