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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8993748" data-attributes="member: 82106">I am not sure I understand why anyone needs to explain anything. However, I did make a comment that was relevant, though I'm in a few threads so maybe it wasn't here. Deeply coded in the human psyche is a group dynamic that manifests as handing all responsibility, and the corresponding authority, to a central figure. Trad D&D (and classic D&D for that matter) and other RPGs utilizing a similar structure, tap into that. Its obviously not the ONLY factor, but I think it is a factor. People find it very hard to break this habit (I state this as a professional, as a lot of my work has involved 'transforming' organizations that are stuck in, basically, this same rut).Yeah, we'll have to disagree on that... A lot of stuff is popular that is just basically crap. I'm not saying D&D falls into that category, but I don't think popularity and quality are somehow inextricably linked. The subjectivity factor you mention is, however, going to make any judgments in this space rather hard to defend though.But I would counter that I find most of the 'ambiguities' as you put it, or deficiencies as [USER=7027139]@loverdrive[/USER] might put it, are the things that are most likely to cause games to not work. I've run D&D games that have fizzled. I have not yet ever run a PbtA game that fizzled. I don't think the sample size is sufficient to say a lot, but standing those two sets of experiences side-by-side I can clearly see where one can outperform the other.I hear this again and again, but where's the pudding? I mean, sure, people hack on 5e, but its very rare to see games that are actually much different, or differences that wouldn't be able to exist in games with other sorts of process of play approach. I'm utterly unconvinced by the argument that 5e is somehow 'more flexible' in any way than Dungeon World, for instance. Yes, there are games that each one is more suited for, but they can each cater to some range of different styles/genre/tone/etc.</blockquote>

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