Comment on “5. Managing Cognitive Load”

This is wonderful work, Alexis. This post and the previous one are such an excellent characterization of the DM's role, with clear definitions and information one can act on. Your description of the centrality of the dual narrative is especially apt; I would like to see you continue to expand on ways to shrink or grow the gulf between what is presented and what is actual.

This kind of thing is exactly what is so obviously ABSENT from published RPG manuals' "how to DM" sections. So obviously absent and, one would think, so obviously necessary... if anyone but you and the rest of us reading this would just take the art form as seriously as it deserves.