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We're getting to the point here where if a door only swings one way it's going to be called railroading. IDK. Puzzles have solutions, sometimes only one solution. If one wants to call that railroading then the term has lost any and all meaning.

Well that's an interesting but flawed reading. What is trivially obvious is that reams of advice exists, with opinions on both sides of the argument. If people wanted to know more or understand the issue better they have the opportunity to do so.

So, I was talking about the existence of good GM advice on the internet. You're talking about GM force. Somewhere a mistake has been made.

I don't see a problem with relieving the players of campaign busting tools. That said, I would probably tell them where those forks are and let them decide if getting them back is worth the trouble. Just making them disappear is a bit of heel turn. IMO, of course.

Oddly, or perhaps not, I find FKR as a design idea intensely frustrating. I love a lot of low weight games, but FKR makes me want to kick babies. The first time you're playing a 'modern' game and you know more about subject X that your GM you are quite likely to hit the eject button. IMO anyway...

It really does. The whole Doctor Who approach gets a lot more attractive.

I think I was pretty clear that not all of that ink is useful, but that doesn't mean there isn't lots of relatively easy to find superb advice about how to run various kinds of RPG systems and genres. Do they though? When you aren't prepared to show your work? Your position assumes that there...

I wouldn't say so, although there is some significant overlap.

I don't need consensus, only submission. Assimilation is inevitable. We are Borg.

Are you being provocative on purpose? The amount of ink spilled on best practices for RPG play can be measured in gallons. Some of it dumb, some of it trite, but lots of it insightful and useful. So let's not pretend that isn't that case. I agree completely. You could do the same in opposite...

This is one take. A curious take. A take that doesn't align with most actual RPG books, but it's a take. It's not rare. The vast majority of PCs die because of the actions they chose to engage in. It's no rare or strange for that to be the case.

I'm sorry. You are the player. You make the decisions. Sometimes those decisions get you ganked. Don't blame the GM for that shizz.

No but it makes it pretty bloody useless to try and get consensus on. It is what it is.

That's down to style and preference. I don't yuck other people's yum for no reason. I do levy consequences in my own games that might include all of those things, but I also try to vet my players and make sure we're all on the same page.

on these forums.

Yup, this is why conversations about immersion always flounder in the shallows of opinion.

I lived on Baffin Island in Canada for more than a decade, and shipping to there is New Zealand bad, so my actual dead tree collection is quite small and has just games that I find inspirational in various ways (writing, design, art, whatever) or the couple of games I design for and run on the...

That might be what you think, and for what it's worth I agree with you, but that doesn't change anything about how 'people' react to having all their goodies stolen in-game. Or to being captured. Or even to being mind-controlled in some cases. It's a thing.

No, a lot of them just die. Very sad.

Not having normative behavior means that you can do whatever you like. Are we saying there are no best practices in RPG play? I agree that we don't want to other different playstyles, but given that RPGs share a common frame of reference the use of 'normal' doesn't have to be making that strong...