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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 8232793" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>My point is it isn't accurate. It is pejorative. I think you think you are describing something accurately but not seeing how your bias is shaping your analysis. A term like &quot;playing to discover what's in the gm's notes' is not only dismissive, it is going to miss any nuance or variety going on in that style. Even the most heavy handed adventure path, which I am no fan of, is going to be more than just discovering what the GM has on the page because there is going to be life breathed into the scenario by the players. Again, I don't care for that style myself, I like sessions that are designed to go in all kinds of directions, but I understand from having played them and talking to people who do play them, the point isn't simply to find out what's in the notes. It is also a really weird way to describe the world building that the prep is doing. The bottom line to me is this: if your method of analysis is always just reassuring you that you style isn't something like simply 'playing to discover the GM's notes', you are probably not being objective as you think you are. It is such a sneering description of a playstyle</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 8232793, member: 85555"] My point is it isn't accurate. It is pejorative. I think you think you are describing something accurately but not seeing how your bias is shaping your analysis. A term like "playing to discover what's in the gm's notes' is not only dismissive, it is going to miss any nuance or variety going on in that style. Even the most heavy handed adventure path, which I am no fan of, is going to be more than just discovering what the GM has on the page because there is going to be life breathed into the scenario by the players. Again, I don't care for that style myself, I like sessions that are designed to go in all kinds of directions, but I understand from having played them and talking to people who do play them, the point isn't simply to find out what's in the notes. It is also a really weird way to describe the world building that the prep is doing. The bottom line to me is this: if your method of analysis is always just reassuring you that you style isn't something like simply 'playing to discover the GM's notes', you are probably not being objective as you think you are. It is such a sneering description of a playstyle [/QUOTE]

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