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<blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 8397840" data-attributes="member: 6696971"><p>On expertise:</p><p></p><p>I think as you go through life and attain more skills and a deeper and more robust forensic knowledge base, it becomes plainly obvious at just how ill-equipped "the prior you" would have been to:</p><p></p><p>(a) frame interesting and consequential decision-points around this thing</p><p></p><p>(b) illuminate these decision-points in such a way that amateurs (at best) can understand (i) their move space and (ii) the implication of their move-space</p><p></p><p>(c) ascertain how well this PC vs that PC might be equipped (physical fitness, mental fitness, skillset overlap, and gear deploymennt) to undertake tackling the conflict at large and micro-decision-points within that conflict.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Not more than 4 years ago, I was just north of a climbing novice. I'm now fairly advanced. "The prior me" would have been extremely less well-equipped to frame/articulate/rule upon climbing conflicts than "the current me." And "the prior me" (just north of climbing novice) probably understood climbing and could articulate it better than 99 % of TTRPG GMs. </p><p></p><p>Further still, "the current me" 100 % overestimates my capabilities in (a), (b), and (c)!</p><p></p><p>This knowledge gap (between the prior you and the current you or the prior/current you and other participants at the table), this knowledge creep and the incestious over-confidence in one's capabilities that comes with it (even in someone who is very advanced in a discipline) has a massive role to play here.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm ENORMOUSLY confident in my ability to GM all kinds of systems and all kinds of conflicts. The self-interrogating "postmortem of my sessions/decisions" side does not agree that my confidence in the moment is warranted!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Manbearcat, post: 8397840, member: 6696971"] On expertise: I think as you go through life and attain more skills and a deeper and more robust forensic knowledge base, it becomes plainly obvious at just how ill-equipped "the prior you" would have been to: (a) frame interesting and consequential decision-points around this thing (b) illuminate these decision-points in such a way that amateurs (at best) can understand (i) their move space and (ii) the implication of their move-space (c) ascertain how well this PC vs that PC might be equipped (physical fitness, mental fitness, skillset overlap, and gear deploymennt) to undertake tackling the conflict at large and micro-decision-points within that conflict. Not more than 4 years ago, I was just north of a climbing novice. I'm now fairly advanced. "The prior me" would have been extremely less well-equipped to frame/articulate/rule upon climbing conflicts than "the current me." And "the prior me" (just north of climbing novice) probably understood climbing and could articulate it better than 99 % of TTRPG GMs. Further still, "the current me" 100 % overestimates my capabilities in (a), (b), and (c)! This knowledge gap (between the prior you and the current you or the prior/current you and other participants at the table), this knowledge creep and the incestious over-confidence in one's capabilities that comes with it (even in someone who is very advanced in a discipline) has a massive role to play here. I'm ENORMOUSLY confident in my ability to GM all kinds of systems and all kinds of conflicts. The self-interrogating "postmortem of my sessions/decisions" side does not agree that my confidence in the moment is warranted! [/QUOTE]
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