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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barastrondo" data-source="post: 5087477" data-attributes="member: 3820">Yes. Absolutely yes. It's an easy trap to fall into, because it's the easiest sort of prep time, so I feel a certain level of sympathy for GMs who don't know better yet — but it's pretty punishing on the fun aspect. Bad storytelling GMs spread a bad reputation around quick, and sometimes it's all but impossible to convince someone that what they perceive as the basis of "storytelling style" was an example of doing it badly.I wouldn't want to suggest that you'd be abdicating that responsibility. I don't think that non-storytelling GMs are any less invested as a whole in their players' enjoyment. It's just the methodology of keeping that enjoyment high — designing those fun random tables versus ad-libbing a quick story trope — that I think you see the primary difference between the styles.</blockquote>