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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6802800" data-attributes="member: 42582">You have honed in on what it is that I dislike about GM pre-authorship: it means that, if the PCs (as played by their players) disagree over something of importance to them, it's already predetermined that one is right and the other wrong.This can be appropriate for certain sorts of mystery/puzzle-solving games, where the emphasis is on the procedural challenges of learning the truth rather than on the dramatic/evaluative challenges of coming to grips with the truth. But I don't think it makes for very good character-driven drama. (This distinction, in turn, goes back to one that [MENTION=99817]chaochou[/MENTION] drew way upthread between play that focuses on competence and play that focuses on character.)That, for me, is the railroading aspect of it: the GM has already decided that there is only one appropriate view of the possessed brother, and has determined what that view is. (There is some resemblance here to GM-adjudicated alignment, which I also dislike.)</blockquote>