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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 6011067" data-attributes="member: 463">I think story-creation games work well with distributed authority, with no GM at all. I don't think they're really RPGs though, not as I understand 'RPG' - playing a role, if done, is only incidental to the object of the game, the creation of an interesting story.I tend to think those narrativist 'story games' were primarily a reaction to '90 s White Wolf style role-playing gaming, with pre-written 'stories' created or run-through by the GM, and the players as little more than passive observers. This could lead to horrible railroading plots where the supposed protagonists were run along tracks with no opportunity to influence unfolding events. TSR did do a bit of this in the 2e AD&amp;D era, but was never the main offender. Early narrativist games like Sorcerer! were still largely traditional PC-centric RPGs in form, but were trying to re-protagonise the PCs by ensuring they had genuine moral choices and freedom to respond to events (Bangs) as the player decided. Later Indie Storygames, like the one I played recently at the London Indie Game Meetup, often don't have 'PCs' at all, or 'GMs'.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 6011067, member: 463"] I think story-creation games work well with distributed authority, with no GM at all. I don't think they're really RPGs though, not as I understand 'RPG' - playing a role, if done, is only incidental to the object of the game, the creation of an interesting story. I tend to think those narrativist 'story games' were primarily a reaction to '90 s White Wolf style role-playing gaming, with pre-written 'stories' created or run-through by the GM, and the players as little more than passive observers. This could lead to horrible railroading plots where the supposed protagonists were run along tracks with no opportunity to influence unfolding events. TSR did do a bit of this in the 2e AD&D era, but was never the main offender. Early narrativist games like Sorcerer! were still largely traditional PC-centric RPGs in form, but were trying to re-protagonise the PCs by ensuring they had genuine moral choices and freedom to respond to events (Bangs) as the player decided. Later Indie Storygames, like the one I played recently at the London Indie Game Meetup, often don't have 'PCs' at all, or 'GMs'. [/QUOTE]

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