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Damn I somehow forgot how much Killer Mike is killing As of the actual question: mostly in person, online only with people I particularly like and who live far away. But if my city didn't have a cool club that is right next door to me, the answer would be very different.

GM is controlling opposition. That is, by definition, not neutral nor impartial. For obvious reasons. I honestly can't believe that I have to spell it out. You can have an impartial arbiter between two opposing teams of players, sure. Too bad there's no Team Monsters in dnd, yeah. (And even...

Sure, I think that'd be a fair assessment (which, I must say, is not a value judgment, just something I vehemently dislike) Although, say, B/X can easily be played basically like a boardgame where players basically gamble at whether the next door they'll bash will be good or not and the GM is...

I must say that while on paper the GM's decision making is unconstrained, in reality you can't really do any of those circumventing measures. Because you'd get called a jerk and the players will get one step closer to deciding that maybe just grabbing a few beers and playing cards all night...

I think there's a deeper problem: the very notion of "fair play". Because it's not a thing that can possibly exist, unless you change the structure of the game closer to a wargame with two opposing sides. For obvious reasons, GM cannot ever be neutral. Because you can't be neutral when you are...

So, yeah. What kind of folk games that people in your world play? They surely don't play our games, after all.

None of the games I'm currently running involve dice at all, but generally: I prefer games to have some kind of symmetrical resolution system, so "GM never rolls" is a downside for me. Not a deal breaker downside, but something I'd not choose when I have an option.

If we treat this castle as some kind of broken place with alien geometry, where reality itself is falling apart you can have a nice opportunity for a "partyless party game", where characters are constantly separated and united.

Can someone explain to me what is actually being discussed? Are snowflakes being annoyed that [whatever race] is not being depicted as bloodthrirsty subhuman savages?

Well, we are in TTRPG General, not in a dnd subforum, soo

The "moon" is a hole in the sky through which a glimpse of another world is visible.

Hotter take: get rid of the party. It, as a concept, basically obliterates player agency. You can't have any independent goals, not really, because the moment your own schemes get in the way of the wider goals of the party, congratulations, you cannot play the game anymore! Also, PC-to-PC...

Was iHunt mentioned? Because I think it fits.

Blue Beard's Bride is an absolutely gorgeous book

It's a hard question! Voted "other", for the record. Sometimes I don't use VTT at all and just do a webcam stream of a physical table. It works quite well for games where I have to draw a lot of stuff on the spot and other players don't really need to interact much with it. Most of the time I...