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I understand, that's fair.

Ehhh....not quite... My example does not let the players decide anything. My example allows the GM to update and change their own ideas on the fly. I think you are missing the "purpose" of being flexible. By allowing the fiction at hand, the actions of everyone in the scene (and the ideas...

Try to think of being a GM and prep like the way some folks mention making horror films = "Never show the whole monster" Sure, plan and write as much as you like. Go to town making backstory and plot hooks and so on. But then learn to expose only as much as is needed. Example: The...

That sounds more like embarrassment from not really knowing how bolas work or what FBI agents might make use of. As well some folks just don't care about minor things of "space to swing a sword/bola in a hallway." We had a event in one of my games where a monster was chasing a PC, and it...

In no game ever, should the GM's notes and ideas ever ever be 100% "fixed". PBTA just has a mechanic rules process which can generate drama on the fly, that's like really, all PBTA is at its core. Everything else is just advice on how to run PBTA and to a lesser extent, any RPG. But the...

This would be a bad-ass way of re-phrasing CATS for a rpg wartime game! love it!

But yeah, I hear ya. Thanks :) I have run tons of systems and games for long time. And I think there are certainly a few authors and game books that do a good job at highlighting what it means to run an rpg, talk about what helps games be successful, and provide useful tools that make...

Ok... well... Come on folks. Fess up! ;) OK, so if my first question's are too odd... how about this one = - Do you feel like those players who disregarded your setting, Also disregarded many or specific other settings too (published ones, ones not yours...)?

For us, the biggest benefit of C.A.T.S was actually, like for real real - talking as a group about what we wanted to do with characters and the types of things we wanted to accomplish with them. So many times players would spam an idea, and then a few games down the road be a little...

To all here who have this issue... I have been running games since 1995... lots of them, like, almost a game a week every year, sometimes more.... I have never ever, not even once - had even one player not care about my worlds or setting. Like, not even close. Most of the time its quite...

You should. Ok, so lots of talk on here about this or that game not working well with players. Or games failing because GM set up X and players ended doing Y and never caring about X. There are discussion about GMs making plots or setting areas that didn't work well with players. And talks...

I run PBTA games every week now for many years. My prep its "What is the world up to?" By that I mean, I think of what the goals of the main NPCs are, and how they might attempt to achieve those goals, an what assets they have to use. I make notes around such and then... When it comes...

Sure, do as you like. The creators have already gone over all of this. And they have additional information on their Discord. Like literally.. they have already talked to this = https://coyoteandcrow.net/2020/06/18/real-word-tribes-in-coyote-and-crow/ And there are people who are from...

I bet there is a darn near 100% chance they have talked about this already. All of C&C discussion happens on their Discord server = link can be found on this page = https://coyoteandcrow.net/2021/12/02/december-launch/ According to the creators they are both adding the Cree to their...

I will check those out for sure, thanks! Come on folks! Be Evil! ;) Any other ideas? Does the island location give extra thoughts?

This is fantastic! I have even use the poison the food idea as a "driver" to push people in the tournament out of desperation.... Keep these great ideas coming! Woot!

So we are playing a xianxia style rpg and trying to get out of our comfort zone. So we decided to play the villains of the story. Now this does not mean the characters do horrible things for horrible sake. Villains, not psychopath nutters. ;) This basically means that the setting is...

Any where with big caves! Mammoth caves anyone? heck yeah!

hahahahaha I have never seen the censorship on this site before. That cracks me up! hehehe....

Not sure if its "best" but its been "great" We use Tremulus: Derelict Adrift (link) What we feel it does better than any other Alien style game by far = pacing. Be it combat or investigation, Derelict Adrift feels like it is the same pace as watching the films. So the panic and oh naughty word...