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<blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6207918" data-attributes="member: 6696971">I think you would get a lot less pushback if the term &quot;rules&quot; wasn't used interchangeably with &quot;fair-use, GM-extrapolation from setting and/or context.&quot;I think much of the barriers/disconnect in this thread is the conflation of those two terms.&nbsp; The two are not synonymous but it seems as if they're being treated as such.&nbsp; Rules are codified things that provide explicit restraint and/or insurance of action occurring or not occurring.&nbsp; They are meant to be objective things.&nbsp; The latter carries multiple vectors of subjectivity:&quot;Fair-use&quot; - GM-determined&quot;GM-extrapolation&quot; - GM-devised&quot;Setting&quot; - GM constructed of which (in a particular playstyle) GM has utter authority over overt or covert setting backstory and is exclusively privy to the covert portion (thus can leverage it, at-will, with no justification nor quality control required)&quot;Context&quot; - Only here is the player involved in the variable of the equation.&nbsp; Their strategic use of resources and actions undertaken are an input to the context.I'll go much deeper into this in my post tomorrow on 3.x GMing ethos/guidance.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Manbearcat, post: 6207918, member: 6696971"] I think you would get a lot less pushback if the term "rules" wasn't used interchangeably with "fair-use, GM-extrapolation from setting and/or context." I think much of the barriers/disconnect in this thread is the conflation of those two terms. The two are not synonymous but it seems as if they're being treated as such. Rules are codified things that provide explicit restraint and/or insurance of action occurring or not occurring. They are meant to be objective things. The latter carries multiple vectors of subjectivity: [B]"Fair-use"[/B] - GM-determined [B]"GM-extrapolation"[/B] - GM-devised [B]"Setting"[/B] - GM constructed of which (in a particular playstyle) GM has utter authority over overt or covert setting backstory and is exclusively privy to the covert portion (thus can leverage it, at-will, with no justification nor quality control required) [B]"Context"[/B] - Only here is the player involved in the variable of the equation. Their strategic use of resources and actions undertaken are an input to the context. I'll go much deeper into this in my post tomorrow on 3.x GMing ethos/guidance. [/QUOTE]

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