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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8137848" data-attributes="member: 82106">I think this is a really KEY point in what I was saying badly. If you have mastery of forms and you choose one and say "This is how I choose to approach this game, because my informed ideas about play lead me to play in this fashion here and now." THAT is surely exercising the greatest level of mastery of the subject! It can be any style of play. There isn't some fundamentally 'better' one, but when one says "well, only this one way can ever be best in all cases" whether for you or for everyone, etc. then you're not exercising or attempting mastery. You're just stuck in the mud! This is why I see Picasso as the greatest of all masters of the art of painting. If you look at the ENTIRETY of his work, you can see that he mastered every style. He was the absolute and utter master of his craft and thus each and every element of his mature work is a fully and completely formed aesthetic choice. He might "just paint" and do it simply to enjoy doing it and not even care about the result, but it was always within his power to produce anything that was in his mind's eye, no matter what technique would be required. Nobody here will probably ever master any subject to quite that degree, maybe most of us cannot aspire to even master one style of playing an RPG, but certainly we can also acknowledge the traits of great mastery and ability. Right?</blockquote>