Editing Kingdoms: Playing The Adjudicator (section)

==Encourage Roleplaying==

Part of the implied social contract of a roleplaying game is that the GM-equivalent holds authority. The implied social contract for a board-game, on the other hand, is different, as players are more likely to expect concrete rules rather than subjective interpretation.

Thus, to justify your role as subjective interpreter, you need to make sure that you are playing a roleplaying game!

Keep players in character as much as you can. Engage them by running the game like an RPG, and in reporting back your own information in-character through NPCs, or through traditional storytelling. If all you feed your players is numbers, then expect nothing but numbers back!