An approach to gaming where the GM tries to create balanced challenges for the players, and the players make decisions primarily to overcome those challenges. Part of the threefold model.

Gamist GM favors a gaming style which values setting up a fair challenge for the players, as opposed to the PCs. The challenges may be tactical combat, intellectual mysteries, politics, or anything else. The players will try to solve the problems they are presented with, and in turn the GM will make these challenges solvable if they act intelligently within the assumed game contract.