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roleplaying theory, hardcore / Re: Stepping on Up to the Investigation
« on: March 04, 2011, 08:29:13 AM »Personal anecdote. A guy I knew always GMed 'solve the mystery' style play with any game he ran. He knew what was really going on, and apparently, if the characters examined the right things, asked the right questions and the players deducted the right conclusions from information thus acquired, we could solve the mystery!Wouldn't this be an example of the GM, possibly, having a Simulationist agenda? It sounds like the possible tedium and frustration of trying to solve a mystery or crime in real life.
It was the most tedious fucking process you could imagine.