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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8398798" data-attributes="member: 93670">IMO adversarial GM as a term almost borders into the realm of jargon for ttrpgs like d&amp;d.&nbsp; An adversarial GM goes from being a fair &amp; impartial puppetmaster for the world the player characters interact with to something where players go in ill equipped with things like flashing&nbsp; neon sign type warning light knowledge their characters should know/consider.&nbsp; They might stack the deck by nerfing disabling or finding blatantly not impartial loopholes against player abilities. They might require players to do things like hit on the exact question/solution in a module &amp; have NPCs completely ignore when players are fishing close then later blaming for not asking to speak to the mayor's assistant who never came up rather than wasting time with the seemingly fruitful &amp; helpful mayor or whatever.&nbsp; There's been a lot of other examples through the thread already, much like pornography however there is no simple answer that doesn't include &quot;We know it when we see it&quot; types of specificity.&nbsp; For that reason it's easy to look like an adversarial GM without actually being one if the slightest whiff of it is suspected.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 8398798, member: 93670"] IMO adversarial GM as a term almost borders into the realm of jargon for ttrpgs like d&d. An adversarial GM goes from being a fair & impartial puppetmaster for the world the player [I]characters[/I] interact with to something where players go in ill equipped with things like flashing neon sign type warning light knowledge their characters should know/consider. They might stack the deck by nerfing disabling or finding blatantly not impartial loopholes against player abilities. They might require players to do things like hit on the exact question/solution in a module & have NPCs completely ignore when players are fishing close then later blaming for not asking to speak to the mayor's assistant who never came up rather than wasting time with the seemingly fruitful & helpful mayor or whatever. There's been a lot of other examples through the thread already, much like pornography however there is no simple answer that doesn't include [I]"We know it when we see it"[/I] types of specificity. For that reason it's easy to look like an adversarial GM without actually being one if the slightest whiff of it is suspected. [/QUOTE]

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