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Sure you can do it that way. I use a lot of principled solutions myself. But those can also be a straight jacket. What @Crimson Longinus...

All this argument over a bunch of mechanics and rules "to protect poor weak, innocent players against imaginary, despotic GMs, who just...

I've yet to see much that wasn't covered in the OP: What I see are a lot of claims of exceptionalism for a certain subset of RPG play...

Perhaps. Maybe. I'm not sure actually... Like yeah, it makes certain logical sense to view it like you say, but given that substance of...

RPGs are not like "any other game". They are collaborative creative exercises with some rules as scaffolding. It is art, not science...

I don't know what principled means here. I'm really out of my depth here and I should have thought twice before posting in a thread...

Me too. I just have a hard time staying away from it, at least until the jargon gets too thick for me.

Sounds like you just have a preference for games on the Narrativist end of the spectrum.

Folks just gotta accept that people have different lines and degrees on the subject. If you feel sandbox must contain x,y,z agency...

Who said anyone was lying? I expect the OP believes every word they wrote. I just feel, in addition to disagreeing with them, that the...

@pemerton I am not interested in being antagonistic. I have a clear preference, but I really don't feel one style of play is...

But I don't think this describes many of the people the OP was talking about. Many of them I imagine wouldn't see knowing rules as...

I came a little late to this, but I think it's probably best to start from the first post. I think this is a bit redundant (any rule...

Yeah. There might be an argument with the second clause there ("all") but when you include "any" you've decided to privledge a...

None at all? I’m hard pressed to think of one. I’ve played a railroad or two but I usually even within those there are still key...