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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7055849" data-attributes="member: 42582">I think if you look at the sorts of GM judgement calls that [MENTION=16586]Campbell[/MENTION], [MENTION=6696971]Manbearcat[/MENTION] and I have talked about, that's manifestly not true.Manbearcat talked about "going where the action is". I've talked (eg posts 164, 221) about the need for the GM to distingush between what is an element of framing, and what is an outcome in which the players, via their PCs, have a stake and hence which is subject to "no failure off-screen". Campbell, in post 73, talked about the need for the GM to confront the players (via their PCs) with fiction that will prompt them to make decisions.These are relatively subtle judgements involving a mix of aesthetic sensibility, a feel for pacing and drama, and a good ability to read the mood of the table as well as the emotions of individual participants. I don't think they would be very easily done by a computer at the typical RPG table.</blockquote>