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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ariosto" data-source="post: 5131572" data-attributes="member: 80487">Bingo!Not that Gygax did not try to explain a game master's role, when he came to write the AD&D books. The Dungeon Masters Guide is an extended discourse on the art.However, it is an art, as is the craft of game design in which GMs are partners with the authors of RPG handbooks they use. My interest as a DM lies not in any ideology but in a playable and interesting game. Action and drama are primary, but the challenge of problem solving has its place.I DM the kind of game I prefer to play. I figure other people might have a similar preference, even if they have for long been familiar only with what's in vogue from the biggest publishers. After all, the AD&Ders who appreciated the difference in Dragonlance and later developments might not have been very keen on much of what had come before. RuneQuest had made a pretty respectable showing in direct competition with AD&D as a "sword & sorcery" game with a different take on nearly every aspect.If there really is some sudden upturn in discussion of the free-range campaign, I sure don't see how it's much more than some visibility in quarters where it had been such an endangered species for so long as to make it seem exotic.And here comes WotC -- Remember "back to the dungeon"? -- with its points of light in a dark age, heroes who venture into the great monster-infested wilderness! It's like deja vu all over again.</blockquote>

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