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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 7571118" data-attributes="member: 23751">I played Mother May I as a kid and it was about having to ask every time if you were allowed to do the idea you have to get across the lawn. And if you forgot to ask correctly, you went back to the beginning as a punishment.  D&D has never been about that.  Even in its heyday during 1e, and the DM had authority to do whatever he wanted, it still wasn't Mother May I.  Why?  Because in addition to the rules, it's also a social game where the DM is obligated not to be a douche.  So when the player said that his character was going around the sequoia tree to see what was on the other side, he wasn't asking permission, despite the fact that the DM could have been a douche and said no.    Not one edition of D&D has risen to the level of Mother May I on its own.  Some very rare bad DMs can bring it there, but that's an issue with that particular jerk, not the system.</blockquote>