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<blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 9724514" data-attributes="member: 71699">The words I bolded put the question in mind of how accurate GM prep is expected to be? And what is right for GM to do if they see that it wasn't accurate? Can they fix it in live? If they fix it in live, how much ought they to disclose about that to players?The bolded words led me to speculate about how it would carry over to other games those GMs decided to play? Which led to thinking about more broadly about whether GM ought to feel any broad obligation to keep play healthy for players that would lead to intervening in live processes?Say Addy the player were going to lose a finger unless I pressed the emergency stop button on the machine I had thought was safe for Addy to use? Suppose Addy were going to feel it unfair and suffer some dismay unless I compensated for down an overtuned foe in live play? Should I do so, or should Addy just toughen up?Reflecting on sorts of questions above it seems right to observe that GM can make mistakes, in prep as much as anywhere else, and GM is allowed to care about players' enjoyment of the game. (One might even feel that GM ought to care about players' enjoyment.)That makes me wonder if the question is not whether GM ought to intervene in live play, but only how? I think there may also be a difference between openess about deciding to intervene, and openess about enacting the intervention.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="clearstream, post: 9724514, member: 71699"] The words I bolded put the question in mind of how accurate GM prep is expected to be? And what is right for GM to do if they see that it wasn't accurate? Can they fix it in live? If they fix it in live, how much ought they to disclose about that to players? The bolded words led me to speculate about how it would carry over to other games those GMs decided to play? Which led to thinking about more broadly about whether GM ought to feel any broad obligation to keep play healthy for players that would lead to intervening in live processes? Say Addy [I]the player [/I]were going to lose a finger unless I pressed the emergency stop button on the machine I had thought was safe for Addy to use? Suppose Addy were going to feel it unfair and suffer some dismay unless I compensated for down an overtuned foe in live play? Should I do so, or should Addy just toughen up? Reflecting on sorts of questions above it seems right to observe that GM can make mistakes, in prep as much as anywhere else, and GM is allowed to care about players' enjoyment of the game. (One might even feel that GM [I]ought[/I] to care about players' enjoyment.) That makes me wonder if the question is not whether GM ought to intervene in live play, but only how? I think there may also be a difference between openess about deciding to intervene, and openess about enacting the intervention. [/QUOTE]

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