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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 8976360" data-attributes="member: 6785785">The GM still has plenty of input. Yes, they draw on the details and cues offered by the players, but they still have a lot of ways to bring that to bear. How those details come into play, and what other details get added, are up to the GM.  I don't know what you mean here. Are all your GM-player relationships this fraught? As I've said, these games are meant to be collaborative. For the GM you mean? Or for everyone? The freedom of players is limited, right? Those limits are what make a game require skill, right? They can't just solve a problem however they wish, there are only certain resources available to them to do so, and so on. The limits are a big part of what creates the challenge. Would you agree with that? If not, why not? If so, why do you apply it to players, but not GMs? So is does player skill exist? I ask because the players' freedom is limited.I mean, the games I play in and run have flaws and low points, of course. But we've been talking about prep and how it can be shifted from the GM to the players. These games tend to do that well in my opinion, so of course I speak highly about that. Why wouldn't I? Not all games need to be some kind of struggle. I don't know if I have or not, to be honest. I've played plenty of hexcrawls, but it's been a long time, and I don't know if any of them were ever generated entirely at random. I don't expect they were. It's amazing how quickly you move to caricature.</blockquote>

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