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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bayushi_seikuro" data-source="post: 8225352" data-attributes="member: 7024851">Going back to the GM I mentioned before with his 3/2/1 unwinnable/barely-manageable/winnable formula, he said outside the table he didn't understand why the party fled from every encounter.  Well, when the descriptions don't vary between the encounters, you've trained the players in that game that there's a 50% chance you will be flat-out making a new character.This was a campaign where the GM complained no one was engaging in his 'oceans of plot', to any degree, and a friend who was playing flat-out told him, with the group there to back it up, that while there was an ocean of plot (again, he was using his campaign to write his Great Novel), the PCs were trapped inside a train on a rail that passed over that ocean.  They could see the ocean but there was no meaningful way to interact with anything, and even if they had a chance, his NPCs stole the spotlight.He was also, then, a GM who was trying to run a mystery session of Vampire set in London where we couldn't research anything historical.  When one PC made a great roll to find something on the microfiche, it was blurred when we'd enlarge it, and also we couldn't find a magnifying glass or anything way to enlarge it IN LONDON PROPER.  Now, we're Americans (he was too) - maybe that's how England works? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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