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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 9618528" data-attributes="member: 6785785">You’re shifting your framing here. The point of your menu metaphor is that it’s more difficult to find something suitable when picking from a smaller selection. Applied to RPGs, it’s harder to be creative when your choices are limited. This is a pretty simple thing to understand. And I don’t need those restrictions to be creative… I find that they make me be creative in different ways. They challenge me as a GM. It was once per game session. Cop out? Lie? What the hell are you talking about?As for favoritism… not at all. The Knight player has an ability that lets him decide about pubs. The other players have characters with similar but different abilities… so they get their turns to do that kind of stuff. Sure, there can be a power fantasy element to RPGs. I don’t think it’s limited to players, though. I think your posts generally prove that.I have never experienced anything like this. So from my perspective, it clearly has nothing to do with the kinds of games I run. Nor do I expect that the other posters here who play and run the games that I do would agree with you.From the experiences you’ve shared in the past, it sounds like something very common at your games. So I think you may want to consider what’s happening with your games that makes this such a common issue for you. Dull rules? We were talking about questions and answers and how you said you don’t want to deal with questions. But it’s such a fundamental part of play… players ask questions and the GM answers… that it made no sense. If you’re point is that you didn’t like a rule that says the player can askX questions and the GM has to answer… then I’d ask why not? Your players are going to ask questions anyway… so what’s the problem?God help us all.</blockquote>

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