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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wicht" data-source="post: 6204371" data-attributes="member: 221">As I was the one who first used the word in the conversation, do I not get to choose how I meant it when I used it?   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  I would think that before telling me that "DM's don't distribute information," as I meant it, it would have been more sensible for the one responding to first make sure they understood what I meant before contradicting me (that is, to do what it is you are telling me I should do). But now I find myself being corrected for having corrected the understanding of the person who first corrected me for the proper use of the word I chose to use because he decided to redefine it after I used it? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" />To be clear...The word distribute (a verb) means to share, or give out. All sharing is a form of distribution. That is the accepted dictionary definition of the word. No matter what the mechanics or style of a DM sharing or giving out information, all games utilizing a DM have a DM who in some shape or form shares or gives out information. Thus all DM's distribute information by the definition of the word distribute. To say that some types of sharing is distribution and other types of sharing is not distribution is nonsensical, akin to saying that some water is wet and some water is not wet.</blockquote>

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