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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7074539" data-attributes="member: 42582">In applying this metaphor to RPGing, who are "the other kids"?If they're other players in a shared world, then what we have is something like the sort of interpersonal and interparty competitive play that seems to have been part of how Gygax ran the game (as best I understand it). I think [MENTION=29398]Lanefan[/MENTION] has elements of this too.But if the "other kids" are purely imaginary beings whose actions and outcomes are being narrated by the GM, then we're clearly (self-evidently, I would say) talking about a GM-driven approach to establishing the content of the shared fiction.Unless there is a RPG table where the players are actually forbidden from making action declarations for their PCs, or where the GM never allows the action resolution mechanics to actually run their course, this can never literally be the case. So it's not the basis on which I'm characterising a game as player-driven or GM-driven.But the one that [MENTION=29398]Lanefan[/MENTION] describes seems to be. He's not talking about running DW-style fronts.I've not used the notions of "DM-centric" or "Player-centric", and I'm not sure what you mean by that. I've talked about who is the driver of the content of the shared fiction.I also don't know what you have in mind by "worst case". [MENTION=29398]Lanefan[/MENTION] has talked about how he runs a game. I assume he's being basically sincere. I'm talking about how I run a game, and what my preferences are in that respect. I'm being sincere.It seems pretty clear to me that, by my standards and my preferences, [MENTION=29398]Lanefan[/MENTION]'s game is GM-driven: that the key elements of the shared fiction are generated by the GM, based on the GM's conception of the "unfolding" gameworld.The fact that the players get to choose whether their PC seek out the orcs or the lizardment doesn't really change that.If you think I'm mistaken about Lanefan's game, by all means explain to me what I've misunderstood.</blockquote>

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