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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 7328071" data-attributes="member: 59082">Sure, no problem <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.It may also be a matter of granularity - that some of the things that bother you, or the differentiations you make, just aren't an issue for me. But I hear what you are saying about content introduction vs. action resolution, and how GM fiat refers more to the latter than the former.This is at the core of where we differ. I don't see illusionistic GMing as a problem, just part of the nature of the job, whereas you seem to have an ideological issue with it.Actually, I see part of the skill of being a GM is maintaining the illusion - the illusion being that of what is in front of and behind the screen. I don't share dice rolls, monster HP, etc, because all of that is meta-game information that the characters wouldn't know. I might say the monster looks in bad shape, etc, but almost never &quot;it has 4 HP left.&quot;Well again, for me &quot;pre-authored content&quot; is rarely if ever set in stone. I always try to be responsive to the situation. I can and will adapt and change pre-authored content.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 7328071, member: 59082"] Sure, no problem :). It may also be a matter of granularity - that some of the things that bother you, or the differentiations you make, just aren't an issue for me. But I hear what you are saying about content introduction vs. action resolution, and how GM fiat refers more to the latter than the former. This is at the core of where we differ. I don't see illusionistic GMing as a problem, just part of the nature of the job, whereas you seem to have an ideological issue with it. Actually, I see part of the skill of being a GM is maintaining the illusion - the illusion being that of what is in front of and behind the screen. I don't share dice rolls, monster HP, etc, because all of that is meta-game information that the characters wouldn't know. I might say the monster looks in bad shape, etc, but almost never "it has 4 HP left." Well again, for me "pre-authored content" is rarely if ever set in stone. I always try to be responsive to the situation. I can and will adapt and change pre-authored content. [/QUOTE]

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