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<blockquote data-quote="Cruentus" data-source="post: 9499779" data-attributes="member: 7034645">I think you’d end up in a situation where they all use different rules, or interpretations, or design philosophies at the table, and there wouldn’t be a consensus about what to include.My experience in listening to designers, across tabletop war games and RPGs, is that when designers play, they often don’t play the games following the ‘published’ rules,&nbsp; they improvise, make rulings, use house rules, builds, armies, and make decisions the way their table plays.&nbsp; The rules that end up in the DMG are ‘mass market’ outputs, that probably don’t mirror how the designers actually play.&nbsp;&nbsp; I mean, look at the 1e DMG.&nbsp; Reportedly Gygax’s games were nothing like what was written there.&nbsp; I look to DMGs for inspiration, and optional rules to use in my games, to make it more ‘my game’.&nbsp; I bought the 24DMG solely for the Greyhawk map.&nbsp; Not for the Greyhawk writeups, the ‘guidelines’ about encounters or deities, etc.&nbsp; I know all that, and we play older editions of the game, and play how our group enjoys the game, not how the designers write it up.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cruentus, post: 9499779, member: 7034645"] I think you’d end up in a situation where they all use different rules, or interpretations, or design philosophies at the table, and there wouldn’t be a consensus about what to include. My experience in listening to designers, across tabletop war games and RPGs, is that when designers play, they often don’t play the games following the ‘published’ rules, they improvise, make rulings, use house rules, builds, armies, and make decisions the way their table plays. The rules that end up in the DMG are ‘mass market’ outputs, that probably don’t mirror how the designers actually play. I mean, look at the 1e DMG. Reportedly Gygax’s games were nothing like what was written there. I look to DMGs for inspiration, and optional rules to use in my games, to make it more ‘my game’. I bought the 24DMG solely for the Greyhawk map. Not for the Greyhawk writeups, the ‘guidelines’ about encounters or deities, etc. I know all that, and we play older editions of the game, and play how our group enjoys the game, not how the designers write it up. [/QUOTE]

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