Make it fast, make it colorful, and make it full of decisions for the players.

Pencil. Paper. Dice. Imagination. A traditional role-playing game requires all of these, and traditional role-playing is my hobby. I don't care if you have an app for that, if you show up to my games without any of the first three, they will be provided for you and you will use them. If you don't have the fourth, well, shit, wrong hobby for you!

The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.

You play Conan, I play Gandalf. We team up to fight Dracula.

It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.

We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.