Thomas Shey
Legend
Imagine you start a style that is really transparent on the GM side. The gm tells the players what all the monster stats are, doesn’t use a screen, rolls out in the open, shared his notes on plot after the game to show all was above board, and begin calling your style honest play. People adopt your style and the honest play label.
I don’t see how you using that word in any way suggests other styles are dishonest, or implied there aren’t other styles that place emphasis on different forms of honesty. It is just a positive descriptor of the style, it resonates, gains traction, and conveys what you mean. Obviously it means a particular kind of honesty and that needs to be conveyed in the explanation. But it seems a useful term, I wouldn’t object to it just because my osr style of play also values being honest (in the form of being sn honest ref)
Actually, I'd have exactly the same reaction to that. It privileges the style in a way that isn't warranted just by the terminology.