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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 8422012" data-attributes="member: 463">They pretend there are rules?Free Kriegsspiel does not pretend there are rules, only some aids to GM adjudication. In the original Prussian Free Kriegsspiel, and many others, the GM is bound to apply the 'rules' of the real world, as he understands them. In a fantasy setting it's the 'rules' (physics) of the fantasy world, which likely include genre conventions, a particular magic level/power, etc. Of course if the players don't agree on those conventions there will be problems. I think FK is therefore best suited to real world, realistic, and hard SF type settings. I can see Game of Thrones working well in FK. Remembering always that the default FK resolution mechanic is NOT &quot;GM decides&quot;, it is &quot;GM declares probability, then rolls&quot;. If the FKR advocates don't do that, then it becomes something like the &quot;Mother May I&quot; bete noire so often invoked on RPGnet. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 8422012, member: 463"] They pretend there are rules? Free Kriegsspiel does not pretend there are rules, only some aids to GM adjudication. In the original Prussian Free Kriegsspiel, and many others, the GM is bound to apply the 'rules' of the real world, as he understands them. In a fantasy setting it's the 'rules' (physics) of the fantasy world, which likely include genre conventions, a particular magic level/power, etc. Of course if the players don't agree on those conventions there will be problems. I think FK is therefore best suited to real world, realistic, and hard SF type settings. I can see Game of Thrones working well in FK. Remembering always that the default FK resolution mechanic is NOT "GM decides", it is "GM declares probability, then rolls". If the FKR advocates don't do that, then it becomes something like the "Mother May I" bete noire so often invoked on RPGnet. :D [/QUOTE]

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