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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dungeonman" data-source="post: 6293671" data-attributes="member: 6775975">I gave it some honest thought, but that water is too cold/hot but not just right for me. I appreciate the alternative viewpoint but D&D Next is my best bet. I'm interested in what-if?/world-building, and this approach wouldn't lead to the kind of internal consistency (or the illusion of internal consistency) I appreciate. The archway being on the left or right is a different kind of confusion representing an acceptable or tolerable quality of detail, unless the DM was being incohesive ("I thought the archway on the left was made from old ruined stones, but now you're telling me it's made of hardened bubblegum carved with pink ponies?" to use an extreme example)I didn't know it was an actual term, but apparently fan wanking has a specific meaning and can have a implied criticism. In this thread, "fan wanking" would seem to be a reference to making up fiction that feels artificially constrained and a person's suspension of disbelief fails, or to use Balesir's term, the "brain simply rebels" -- not because of simulationist mechanics that fail to feel simulationist (which is how Balesir used it) but in this case because the fiction that's filled in to color inbetween the lines has (subjectively) failed to satisfy and transcend the canon lines.<a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FanWank" target="_blank">http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FanWank</a></blockquote>

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