Robert's rules of good gaming

Specifically, pen & paper role-playing games.

• GM: Listen to your players. Use their knowledge. Ask them to make suggestions.
• Give the GM the benefit of the doubt. It's a tough job he has taken on. If you think you can do better, he'll likely be glad to create a PC.
• GM: Say, "Yes!"
• The GM chooses the system.
• When a rule seems silly, figure out why the designers & playtesters didn't think it was silly.
• Choose the system that is closest to what you want, & house rule the rest.
• GM: Do not silence a player whose character is absent. That player should be free to give the other players advice on how to play their characters. (I don't care if you call it metagaming. I think silencing the player is the real metagaming.)