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Except in this comparison, the corporate executive likely needs to get it signed off by the board (i.e. players) and is beholden to their satisfaction.

I was under the impression the contention was what kind of constraints the GM should be under. Plenty of trad-leaning GMs in this thread have mentioned self-imposed constraints.

To be fair, plenty of GMs fudge rolls for various reasons. I hate it myself, but it's a common enough trend.

I think jargon can serve as useful shorthand, but good jargon should be intuitive enough that a lay person could derive its meaning from context. Much of the Forge's terminology is not only unintuitive and flowery, but feels like it was deliberately designed to obfuscate and distinguish the...

A quizmaster/gameshow host is effectively a master of ceremonies. I know a lot of PbtA games use that term in place of GM, but I find it equally as erroneous as referee, especially so as far as traditional GMs go. In hindsight, my 1vX comparison could be construed as comparable to antagonistic...

I've always thought the notion that the GM isn't a player to be patently ridiculous. A referee is an impartial non-participant. While many GMs strive to be as impartial as possible (i.e. referee is one role they try to fill), if they're setting scenes, deciding consequences for actions, playing...

That's a shame. I'm not a fan of anime, myself, but Blue Eye Samurai was really good. Even has what you might consider a wuxia dungeon.

If you haven't already, might I suggest giving Blue Eye Samurai a try. The subject matter is close enough to wuxia that it might help alleviate some of the dislike.

That sense of the unknown is important to some people. It is like spoilers in other mediums. I recall a study was done on film spoilers, and it (surprisingly, to me) found that a slight majority (maybe a plurality), actually had their enjoyment increased by spoilers due to the anticipation of...

I think the immediately obvious one would be that it potentially results in an incoherent setting. The more constraints and consensus there is the less likely that is to happen. And, obviously, it can still happen with a single GM deciding it all, but the more people contributing to it, the more...

So, to try to bridge the divide, I'm going to use an analogy. A parent telling their child a bedtime story. A parent reading the story from a book would be akin to a railroad GM. A parent ad libbing a story, incorporating interjections from their kid, going in wildly random directions as a...

I think it might have something to do with the "game" part of "roleplaying game". This is completely in-line with everything I've been saying, so here we agree. This is absolutely not the case though. Nearly everyone here, regardless of preferences, has been doing the exact opposite of "trying...

This is going off into a different set of preferences now, but personally, I'm not a fan of the thought-bubble approach. In a comic, it's a necessity of the medium, but it's rightly derided in a TV show/film as poor writing. At the table, I want that characterisation, but show me. So instead of...

What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

What sort of prep and how much would acceptable for you to not consider the GM a storyteller?

Hey, the jianghu needs villains for the martial heroes to defeat, nothing said the players couldn't be those villains.

You invoked your length of participation in the hobby to imply that you were more experienced and thus your view holds more weight. That's literally a variant of the appeal to authority. Perhaps you should take your own advice.

Supernatural/occult stuff of varying stripes is my jam, so I was intrigued by Curseborne when it was first announced, but everything I've seen for it just fell flat for me. A lot of it seemed to be "different for the sake of being different". Goths never left, and, er, about Jolt Cola...

Neither of these really address what I was wondering. When including the original context: @hawkeyefan seemed to imply that any creator-as-GM is going to be focussed on bringing their creations to bare as the primary focus. And that's not the case, surely?

I'm sure there's a way to marry the two, like an "XP for trashing the setting", without dictating how, though it would likely require some stringent phrasing. Not that I'm suggesting you should, of course. Merely me musing a hypothetical.