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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 7571706" data-attributes="member: 6785785">Again, this seems contradictory to me. If you honestly think that any method is equal...that neither GM nor Player driven techniques are more “realistic” than the other....a sentiment I would agree with, by the way...then why would you infer someone describing their technique as being guided by their sense of realism or causality as a criticism of other techniques? I don’t rely solely on GM driven techniques in my games. I use them, yes....but more and more I find myself allowing the players to determine lots of details. Whether it’s simply going with an idea they’ve presented or using the game mechanics to determine something, I like using different approaches for different things. Obviously, a lot of this depends on the game being played. At times I may decide something as a GM that I feel is appropriate. Perhaps a villain has been driven from his lair and gone into hiding. Where is he hiding? If I decide ahead of time, and base it upon information that’s been presented in the fiction...the villain’s traits and desires, and his connections and resources, whatever other pertinent elements of the fiction that may apply..then I’ll go ahead and do that. Using the logic of the fiction to make such a decision. In a case where maybe a lot of the facts that would inform such a decision haven’t been strongly established, I may allow the players to suggest a probable location, and perhaps make some kind of roll to see if it works out. Then I’ll proceed with having the villain be hiding somewhere accordong to this method.I don’t think that either of these two methods is ultimately “more realistic” than the other. But I absolutely understand why someone might use such language when discussing the first method. It is certainly imprecise, but I’m not going to look for offense where none is intended.</blockquote>

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