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I literally said there WAS "some potential for DIY". It's just not "some potential for DIY in the foundational core". This is like saying that you can't program anything at all, ever, while using a Windows machine, and that the ONLY way to be able to be a TRUE programmer is if you're writing...

Okay. What is incorrect about the claim? Because this was a lot of words to say "Nuh-uh" without actually responding in any way. From where I'm sitting, there's nothing incorrect about Hussar's claim. If one person has full control over 99.9% of everything...where can anything emerge? Sure, to...

It is not just that. I'm sure you've heard the phrase "limitation breeds creativity". I don't personally think the pithy version is actually correct--it needs one extra word. "Good limitations breed creativity." There are good limitations and bad ones. As an example, forcing a DM to run the...

I'm curious what your concern with Story Now is. To be clear (though I wish it weren't necessary to say this explicitly), you're entirely within your rights to not like it. I'm just curious why it is a problem for you. For my own part, I'm not very keen on Story Before unless it's a...

On the one hand, I 110% agree with the assertion that corporate game development has an unnecessarily harsh view on perfectly meeting development timetables (and on making timetables shorter than they should be). On the other, there are two VERY important caveats. First, if you announce a...

Seems fine to me. I assume the final benefit is primarily for one-handed attackers (e.g. sword-and-board or a Bladesinger type deal)?

Okay but now you're doing that thing again--where only your terminology matters, and if I don't understand it or don't agree with it, I'm SOL, but if you disagree with my terminology or don't understand it...I'm also SOL. This is the "heads I win, tails you lose" type of argumentation I got...

I was half-right. 2e did introduce actual, legit Asian-inspired dragons, as noted above. But it also still had the wingless Gold. It was 3e that introduced the (IMO profoundly ugly) fish-fin-wings. Which means, at this point, no particular form for the Gold is any more traditional than any...

Bolded bit: Uh....no? It can also be a different thing. A thing where the GM gives the players a platform in which to tell THEIR story, not by the grossly insulting phrase people around here love to use (the whole "willing a tower into existence" thing or other base canards), but by putting...

I certainly do see a contradiction, yes. The former, as I read it, says: Absolutely NO storytelling, at all, whatsoever. Nothing story AT ALL, period, end of discussion. Do not even think of story. Anything that might even vaguely smell of story? Delete it from your brain, yesterday. The...

But when you sit down to play a game, do you sit down to play an ordinary person living an ordinary life in downtown London who would, even if subjected to a fully-justified call to adventure, be thinking to themself, "oh sweet Lord this is going to be SO EXPENSIVE" or what-have-you? Do you sit...

My pleasure--I believe I did give an example of that, discussing the "Spout Lore" move (specifically, our half-elf Battlemaster explaining why he knew stuff about gems). But I wouldn't be surprised if hawkeyefan also spoke of things to this effect too, so it could easily have been just one...

I get why folks appreciate that. I, personally, think metallic and chromatic dragons should remain clearly Western (even if the Gold was, for actually only a relatively brief time, the only Eastern-style dragon), and then separately there should also be Eastern-style dragons. IIRC, that's what...

I'm afraid I'm ignoring that person and thus won't be engaging with their posts.

Does this then not explain why I find the "TRUST TRUST TRUST TRUST" response so infuriating, especially when it's presented in the "sucks to be a socially stunted weirdo!" form? Because I'm really not much interested in playing Mao. But if I'm to take this response seriously, that's what you're...

If I cannot know how a decision is made, if it is black-boxed, I cannot see any difference between that and not having any rules at all. Like I genuinely do not know how that looks any different: I cannot see the inputs, I cannot see the process, I can only see the outputs, and as I and others...

Okay. I want to know how "guided by their own judgemnt" works. Because that's...like...literally the whole THING. Saying "well it's just the GM's judgment" is almost, but not entirely, a non-answer. It just passes the buck forward to, what does "just the GM's judgment" mean? My apologies. It's...

Not at all. Before you make any decisions about what is in the world, there is not and cannot be any context. You have to be choosing what goes in, before you can start working within constraints that you defined yourself. How do you define those constraints? But how do we tell the difference...

I was not. I was referring to the DM. I usually use "she" for that (since DMs "traditionally" are men, this makes it stand out), but I chose to use the completely gender-neutral term instead. Okay. Then to clarify: How did you establish NPCs and factions and history of the world? How did you...