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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 8633245" data-attributes="member: 6696971">The problem is that “I’ve seen a lot of failure states” is a series of observations.Now where have I seen them?* I’ve seen them in the wild while observing peoples home games (not participating).* I’ve seen an endless deluge of them, with no safe harbor in sight, sited on ENWorld and other places.What do the have in common?* The issues I’ve sited.How have I nearly wholly avoided them despite GMing more than 10,000 hours of TTRPG play with 100s of neurologically diverse participants in the last 38 years?I’m not a Wizard and I don’t have a Heward’s Handy Haversack of magic pixie dust.I’ve avoided them mostly because I’ve overwhelmingly run games that have helped me do what I’ve said above (from pawn/token stance Moldvay/RC to Over the Edge/Everway to all the more recent - last 20 years - games people have seen me mention).On the rare occasion that I’ve personally run into problems it’s been a few stray moments of a player who has a particular neurological orientation that they can’t overcome or, overwhelmingly, some iteration of “the great lieutenant problem” sited above; a system problem. After reflecting on an understanding that, I buckled down, endured and brought those games to conclusion. After which I course-corrected and didn’t run them again.I then used those reflections to develop my understanding of this stuff and winnow my subsequent decision-tree when choosing games in the future.Despite an absurd amount of GMing and variety (both games and players), I have had only two problems since 2005 (both related to players with a “habit problem”). I feel confident that is not a coincidence (but rather directly related to all the virtual ink I spill on these boards)!</blockquote>

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