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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 9626698" data-attributes="member: 20323">I would encourage you – with your own creative works for sale – not to feel beholden to any of the WotC/Hasbro formats. There's a healthy tradition of changing up the mold when it serves the project better.To your greater question, for all the greater clarity that's gained with a mechanistic keyword system, yes I agree there is something lost. For me, that something is a creative flow where the words inspire my imagination about how something might be used or look in play. When I encounter the mechanistic keyword bits during my brainstorming / pleasure reading, it definitely inhibits that creative flow. So there's the Reference Book vs. Inspiration Book tension.Personally, when the authors feel they're doing me a service by telling me you can take the &quot;Utilize&quot; action or the &quot;Magic&quot; action, I feel they've lost the thread. Of course I can! You don't need to tell me that!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 9626698, member: 20323"] I would encourage you – with your own creative works for sale – not to feel beholden to any of the WotC/Hasbro formats. There's a healthy tradition of changing up the mold when it serves the project better. To your greater question, for all the greater clarity that's gained with a mechanistic keyword system, yes I agree there is something lost. For me, that something is a creative flow where the words inspire my imagination about how something might be used or look in play. When I encounter the mechanistic keyword bits during my brainstorming / pleasure reading, it definitely inhibits that creative flow. So there's the Reference Book vs. Inspiration Book tension. Personally, when the authors feel they're doing me a service by telling me you can take the "Utilize" action or the "Magic" action, I feel they've lost the thread. Of course I can! You don't need to tell me that! [/QUOTE]

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