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<blockquote data-quote="Mark CMG" data-source="post: 5726275" data-attributes="member: 10479"><p>I find this to be erroneous.&nbsp; I have found in my gaming (and that which I have observed) since the early Seventies that games with less depth of roleplaying, when games have more of a tendancy toward combat, that they can seem to be adversarial but that even then this can be a mistaken impression.&nbsp; In my own experience, this is just as true with modern RPGs and younger RPGers as it is with older versions of RPGs and/or older RPGers.&nbsp; Much of this is born from the impression that just because a facilitator is meant to present obstacles and conflict, the facilitator is somehow vested in the outcome of encounters.&nbsp; The fact of the matter is that any facilitator can create situations where the PCs are overwhelmed, either accidetally or intentionally.&nbsp; It is more often the novice facilitator who errors to the side of the spectrum where PCs become outmatched, though I hasten to point out that this is often not purposeful.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Mark CMG, post: 5726275, member: 10479"] I find this to be erroneous. I have found in my gaming (and that which I have observed) since the early Seventies that games with less depth of roleplaying, when games have more of a tendancy toward combat, that they can seem to be adversarial but that even then this can be a mistaken impression. In my own experience, this is just as true with modern RPGs and younger RPGers as it is with older versions of RPGs and/or older RPGers. Much of this is born from the impression that just because a facilitator is meant to present obstacles and conflict, the facilitator is somehow vested in the outcome of encounters. The fact of the matter is that any facilitator can create situations where the PCs are overwhelmed, either accidetally or intentionally. It is more often the novice facilitator who errors to the side of the spectrum where PCs become outmatched, though I hasten to point out that this is often not purposeful. [/QUOTE]

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