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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5898529" data-attributes="member: 54877">Some folks may have latched onto the CaS/CaW thing to continue the edition war, but I don't think there is anything inherent in the idea that makes it so.  (Actually, I'm sure there has been some such latching, given the "any stick is good enough to beat edition X" with mentality.)  Rather, CaS/CaW points to different influences in how the story is going to be told.  CaS is Lancelot and Gawain tilting for the same fair maiden's favor.  CaW is trying to avoid getting poisoned by Mordred in the process. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> And of course, most stories have a mix--and not in the same proportions or evenly, either.  Games can probably tend to more extremes than stories without totally breaking--because you've still got the game part to hold it together.  Even so, I suspect it is a rare CaS game that doesn't have a bit of off the wall stuff allowed, and I suspect it is a rare CaW game that doesn't have some "fair play" agreements that puts some things off limits. One thing I personally can't stand is a game pretending to one extreme while being actually run as the other.  For example, picture a campaign that sells itself as Fantasy Vietnam, but thanks to DM fiat and other such means, no character ever dies.  I realize that some people play for an atmosphere as much as anything else, but I'm not one of them.</blockquote>

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