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<blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 8340561" data-attributes="member: 86653">Yes, I think best practices exist for gaming. At no point do I claim to know what they are. There are clearly better and worse ways to role-play just as there are better and worse ways to engage players and better and worse ways to run a hexcrawl. None of that means right or wrong, just more or less efficient and more or less effective. If your goal is X you should try A, B, and C while trying to avoid G, H, and I.While I can understand what I assume is the thought behind this, it's literally impossible to do. As a group we can't even agree what a role-playing game is. To say nothing of smaller subcategories of activity commonly conducted within that space.Not really, no.Trouble is someone will always come along and find something problematic. Even if just to be disruptive. Of course not all instances of problematic things are people being disruptive.It is becoming common in conversational English. I do not work in a field where the phrase &quot;best practices&quot; is a thing and yet it's something I've heard fairly regularly from people who also do not work in fields where the phrase is a thing. To me, and the way I am using it, the phrase &quot;best practices&quot; simply means: these things work better than other things not listed.The trouble with pointing at anything and everything that is a declarative statement and saying &quot;onetruewayism&quot; is that the phrase loses meaning and it prevents honest conversation. It's become a bogeyman.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="overgeeked, post: 8340561, member: 86653"] Yes, I think best practices exist for gaming. At no point do I claim to know what they are. There are clearly better and worse ways to role-play just as there are better and worse ways to engage players and better and worse ways to run a hexcrawl. None of that means right or wrong, just more or less efficient and more or less effective. If your goal is X you should try A, B, and C while trying to avoid G, H, and I. While I can understand what I assume is the thought behind this, it's literally impossible to do. As a group we can't even agree what a role-playing game is. To say nothing of smaller subcategories of activity commonly conducted within that space. Not really, no. Trouble is someone will always come along and find something problematic. Even if just to be disruptive. Of course not all instances of problematic things are people being disruptive. It is becoming common in conversational English. I do not work in a field where the phrase "best practices" is a thing and yet it's something I've heard fairly regularly from people who also do not work in fields where the phrase is a thing. To me, and the way I am using it, the phrase "best practices" simply means: these things work better than other things not listed. The trouble with pointing at anything and everything that is a declarative statement and saying "onetruewayism" is that the phrase loses meaning and it prevents honest conversation. It's become a bogeyman. [/QUOTE]

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