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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 9389943" data-attributes="member: 6801845">The DM I had at the con was an experienced, professional DM.  They leaned into what they termed the rule of cool just as much as the OP's DM.  In many ways he was a fantastic DM, he just wasn't the right DM for me.  So is his definition of the rule of cool also incorrect? Who gets to decide?Which is why I keep harping on the fact that we have no definition of what the rule of cool means and how it's misleading and annoying to lump everything together.  There's a massive difference between allowing improvised actions not explicitly covered by the rules to ignore the rules of the game completely and let the player do what they want if it is fun for the player.  The rule of cool has such broad definitions.  So if the OP's experience and my experience are not rule of cool (even though the DM I had would disagree with you) what are they?  Because the style isn't inherently bad, it's just that our experiences went too far on the spectrum of "follow the rules" to "always say yes" for us.  We are arguing about different things, you seem to want the rule of cool to mean any and all improvised actions, the way I've seen people use the rule of cool goes far beyond that.</blockquote>