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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prabe" data-source="post: 8274855" data-attributes="member: 7016699">Maybe the rules aren't so much implied as inferred, which would mean it's about what's in the DM's head as opposed to what was in the various writers' heads. I read the rules for, say, Ability Checks, and I infer that success and failure have meanings that might not be in the literal words on the page, and I infer that those changes to the narrative should remain in place until/unless something happens in the narrative to undo them, and so on. I think I like inferred better than imagined here; maybe because we're getting into the differences between connotations and denotations.This works well in a TRPG, which is (broadly) collaborative. It plausibly would work less well in something competitive, but competitive games have their own social contracts, IMO.That's a different case, then. Bluntly, I run 5E tables/campaigns I'd love to play; I haven't had great luck finding other DMs I enjoy playing 5E with, either.</blockquote>