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Message: <blockquote data-quote="soviet" data-source="post: 8999687" data-attributes="member: 6925338">100% agree. 'No rule zero' is about i) this game works out of the box without needing to be changed, and ii) no one participant is empowered to make such changes unilaterally (and possibly in secret). A group playing such a game that encounters a problem with the rules mid-session will most likely discuss it as a group - 'Hey, what if we changed rule X to be rule Y instead?' 'Yeah, cool'.  They don't watch their game crash and burn because they are beholden to an indie RPG developer they've never met. A group that wants to play such a game but in a different genre - say, Dogs in the Vineyard with Jedi - will simply agree to do so. Maybe the group collaborate on putting together a conversion or maybe the GM does it and then the rest of the group says 'Cool'. Maybe they just wing it. They certainly don't abandon the idea because 'Vincent Baker wouldn't like it' or 'It's not allowed'.</blockquote>