![]() Respect for the real person sitting before you playing the game comes before any idea for the game you actually have." (emphasis added) Your job as Referee is not to shock, scare, scandalize, or assault the senses. ![]() Communicate outside of the game, and find where the limits lie. No, seriously! They were perhaps a bit rudimentary compared to the codified tools that are out there today, but I didn't see many other rulesets (OSR or otherwise) including quotes like " The Referee shall realize that Rule 0 is for the purpose of establishing the desired atmosphere for his campaign, and not as an excuse to abuse players or a license to be a despot at the game table… The Referee’s role is to challenge players, not victimize them." or " Know your players. ![]() In contrast to most of the other rulesets I had seen at the time, it had a lot of referee advice - and it had safety tools. Somewhere in the 2009-2011 range, when I was just discovering the OSR scene, I ran across a retroclone which stuck out to me and zoomed up into my favorites for quite some time. ![]()
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