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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 6868517" data-attributes="member: 16814">Begging the question, though, why is having more people agree with your playstyle choices an effective why to improve and/or broaden the game?&nbsp; You don't agree with Max's playstyle choices, so aren't you equally guilty of not acting to broaden the game?Again, I'm in the middle, here -- I've played both ways and don't have an issue with heavy player authorship in general.&nbsp; The games I'm running right now, though, is somewhere in the middle, where players have broad authorship ability so long as there's a minimum fidelity to the setting tropes and mechanics involved.&nbsp; LOL wouldn't fit well in my current game, but would have done wonderfully in the game I ran before this one.&nbsp; I drift.&nbsp; And, as a player, there's very few playstyles that I can't get into, even if I prefer some of them.&nbsp; I like to stretch on occasion.But, at the end of the day, the table determines the playstyle, and, if you're joining, you need to make sure that you understand that you're not being denied by those people, you're voluntarily agreeing to play in their style when you sit down.&nbsp; Arguments that this limits how broad the game is are silly -- that's you putting your preference ahead of others.&nbsp; The game can have quite a healthy broadness of playstyle without you demanding that every table be accommodating of every playstyle at all times or become part of the problem. That's a soft tyranny of entitlement.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 6868517, member: 16814"] Begging the question, though, why is having more people agree with your playstyle choices an effective why to improve and/or broaden the game? You don't agree with Max's playstyle choices, so aren't you equally guilty of not acting to broaden the game? Again, I'm in the middle, here -- I've played both ways and don't have an issue with heavy player authorship in general. The games I'm running right now, though, is somewhere in the middle, where players have broad authorship ability so long as there's a minimum fidelity to the setting tropes and mechanics involved. LOL wouldn't fit well in my current game, but would have done wonderfully in the game I ran before this one. I drift. And, as a player, there's very few playstyles that I can't get into, even if I prefer some of them. I like to stretch on occasion. But, at the end of the day, the table determines the playstyle, and, if you're joining, you need to make sure that you understand that you're not being denied by those people, you're voluntarily agreeing to play in their style when you sit down. Arguments that this limits how broad the game is are silly -- that's you putting your preference ahead of others. The game can have quite a healthy broadness of playstyle without you demanding that every table be accommodating of every playstyle at all times or become part of the problem. That's a soft tyranny of entitlement. [/QUOTE]

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