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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Grail@multiverse.soulism.net to c/rpg@ttrpg.network

Greetings, programs! With the MCDM community's help, I've prepared a survey of GM styles, so that I can use factor analysis to find the common variables underlying GMs' responses, and come up with a scientific answer to "what kinds of GM styles are there?" The survey has 43 questions and takes a few minutes to complete. The more people answer, the better the data we'll get.

EDIT: We got 101 responses and now we're analysing the data. First results: There are 9 dimensions of GM style! Not sure what they are, but there's 9 of them.

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[-] SJohnRoss@dice.camp 1 points 2 days ago

@Grail Too many to list, but one example is "Is your game an open world sandbox or a linear railroad?"

Nails or glass. Yum.

[-] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I didn't know there were options outside of the spectrum of those two. What's your game?

[-] SJohnRoss@dice.camp 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

@Grail

Most of the GMs I know have several worlds and games. Many have dozens, and some have hundreds.

So the questions that talk as if I have just one - as you just did - were strange to me.

Anyway, bedtime for me. Best of luck with it.

[-] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 points 2 days ago

Oh, I have several too. I've run in Doskvol, Orden, the Planescape, and two homebrew worlds I invented. I answered all of those questions with a weighted average of My worlds.

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