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<blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6818511" data-attributes="member: 6696971">What I've tried to convey in my most recent posts is to disabuse the notion of GM bias in systems that have as their GMing centerpiece to &quot;push play towards conflict.&quot;&nbsp; Say I'm running Dogs in the Vineyard and one of my player's Dogs has a Trait of &quot;I hate the sins of unfaithfulness and promiscuity most of all&quot; and a Relationship of &quot;My big brother is my hero&quot;.&nbsp; The player characters are meting out justice in one town or another.&nbsp; In the course of play, we * discover that the basement of a tannery doubles as a brothel.&nbsp; Well that is bad enough, right?&nbsp; The PC mentioned above finds a familiar, well-worn, ten gallon hat sitting on an end-table in the basement's foyer as he hears sounds from the interior indicating that a working lady is...well, hard at work.&nbsp; Now we've got some real meat on that bone.That is my job.&nbsp; That is no more my bias than it is a first grade teacher's bias to include handwriting and reading in their &quot;course work.&quot;&nbsp; The system directs me to do this precisely, tells me why, and shows me how.The more proficient I become at it, the better the table results.* all of us; prepping a town involves nothing more than some key people and something wrong - typically an outbreak of sin, a gang, corruption, or maybe supernatural evil - which plug into PC build flags and the general theme of the game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Manbearcat, post: 6818511, member: 6696971"] What I've tried to convey in my most recent posts is to disabuse the notion of GM bias in systems that have as their GMing centerpiece to "push play towards conflict." Say I'm running Dogs in the Vineyard and one of my player's Dogs has a Trait of "I hate the sins of unfaithfulness and promiscuity most of all" and a Relationship of "My big brother is my hero". The player characters are meting out justice in one town or another. In the course of play, we * discover that the basement of a tannery doubles as a brothel. Well that is bad enough, right? The PC mentioned above finds a familiar, well-worn, ten gallon hat sitting on an end-table in the basement's foyer as he hears sounds from the interior indicating that a working lady is...well, hard at work. Now we've got some real meat on that bone. That is my job. That is no more my bias than it is a first grade teacher's bias to include handwriting and reading in their "course work." The system directs me to do this precisely, tells me why, and shows me how. The more proficient I become at it, the better the table results. [SIZE=1] * all of us; prepping a town involves nothing more than some key people and something wrong - typically an outbreak of sin, a gang, corruption, or maybe supernatural evil - which plug into PC build flags and the general theme of the game.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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