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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 7927252" data-attributes="member: 6696971">Interesting discussion.  I think my thoughts on this would be as follows:1)  GMing each separate game archetype/play priority (contrast Moldvay Basic with Torchbearer with D&D 4e with Dogs in the Vineyard with an early White Wolf game) is difficult...until its not.  Its always active and never "easy", but the difficulty-level decreases significantly with time, experience, skill-accrued, and a better understanding of overhead-management.2)  Being in a game where you have to heavily advocate for both your PC and the needs of your group (whether that be thematic decision-points, strategic decision-points, or tactical decision-points) while understanding the rules (and maybe even helping the GM in their correct deployment)...that always requires significant mental engagement and therefore never becomes passive or "easy."3)  Being a player in a game where the rules are just there to (a) make it feel like you're actively participating in gamestate-changing decision-points and action resolution (b) while the GM is heavily using covert Force to manipulate the gamestate and tell a story...that is a comparatively passive and "easy" experience.[HR][/HR]Personally, once you become significantly skillful and confident in running a game, I don't think the difference between (1) and (2) becomes an overwhelmingly thing, except in the rare cases where (a) you're running a granular hexcrawl and you have to manage a lot of high resolution information along with (b) a lot of rules interactions.Once you're good at it, running Dogs, Blades, Dungeon World, and 4e are CONSIDERABLY less mentally taxing and table time intensive than a 1e, Expert, RC, 3.x, 5e hexcrawl.</blockquote>

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