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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9285834" data-attributes="member: 42582">The PCs discovering a clue is an event. A pre-planned event like that is (an element of) a plot.If you want that event to happen, you are prepping a plot.Presumably the GM is assuming that the PCs will try and work out who the kidnapper is, and where the girl is being hidden. Otherwise this is all just a waste of time on the GM's part.I think I fall into your final paragraph, both as GM and player. I am not interested in working through a GM-authored scenario - what I would normally call a plot - whether by way of one clue, or three. The GM setting up the plot so that the PCs can learn about the kidnapper from a confession, from the tyre-tracks at the site of the kidnapping, or from the extra food that has been delivered to the kidnapper's house doesn't make it not be a plot set up by the GM.As you say, diluting the chokepoint by way of 3 clues may change certain features of play - the GM has deployed their authorship in advance, rather than during the moment of adjudication. But it is still, as you also say, a GM-authored scenario.It is - by definition, I would say - not possible to run a RPG with a reasonably conventional split of GM and player roles, without the GM providing information to the players.But it is quite possible to run a RPG in which the GM does not give clues in the sense if pointers to established/prepared-but-currently-secret elements of the fiction. I know, because I do this all the time. The best know account of how to do this has been described upthread by @AbdulAlhzared - it is found in Apocalypse World, and then picked up in other RPGs like Dungeon World.My own approach is more heavily influenced by Burning Wheel, but that's by-the-by. For present purposes, the two approaches are not wildly different. They certainly do not have any room for, let alone need for, the "three clue rule".</blockquote>

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