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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 9253501" data-attributes="member: 6696971">If it’s alright I’ll interject to vouch here so you guys can get back to talking about something a little more interesting (to me at least!).In the last 3+ years, hawkeyefan has been a player (an extraordinarily good one to boot) in the below games I’ve GMed:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">6 session Blades game.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">14 month or so (full) Blades game.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">14 month or so (full) Stonetop game.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Full Season Mouse Guard game.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">One-shot Lazers & Feelings game.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">3 x Town (maybe 8 sessions?) Dogs in the Vineyard game.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">7ish session Thousand Arrows game.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Current (session…8?…tonight) The Between game.</li> </ul>So he’s got a huge amount and breadth of experience playing and he’s run Blades, Stonetop, Spire, Heart for his home group (maybe something else) in that same span.So maybe you guys could talk about how your specific experiences inform your thoughts anecdotally, that might move the ball down the field in your conversation.Like for instance, I wrote above about how the cultural pedagogy and inertia of the late 80s (started GMing in ‘84, but it wasn’t for a few years that I really started getting contact with the greater culture-at-large) would have really harmed my GMing if I would have buckled to it. My 10-13 year old self was routinely put down for using Wandering Monsters and ESPECIALLY for using and honoring every NPC Reaction Roll that came up because they would generate metaplot (which I didn’t use nor care about; yup, got ripped for that too!) or sense & setting-defying results which I would have to justify with what was cast as awkward or nonsensical impromptu backstory that couldn’t possibly fit.If I would have buckled to those social pressures/exhortations/denouncements (rather than seeking those WMs and NPCRRs results as an exciting challenge to generate fun content off-the-cuff), it would have been a net harm to the play I was interested in and to the growth of my lateral thinking reservoir.An analog to that would be interesting to hear.</blockquote>

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