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.
@Grail Too many to list, but one example is "Is your game an open world sandbox or a linear railroad?"
Nails or glass. Yum.
I didn't know there were options outside of the spectrum of those two. What's your game?
@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.
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.