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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9535008" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Certainly. That's part of why I advocate for rules that are useless to me (like "Novice level" rules), but which I know would be incredibly useful or even essential to people who have very different tastes.Personally, I think it's quite possible to have a single game that really does meet many different styles well, genuinely giving different groups what they want. There are a few things that I think need to be baked in from the start, mostly in a "one-way function" sense. E.g., it is easy to start from an asymmetrically-balanced system and produce unbalanced results, just ignore all guidelines; it is hard to the point of nearly impossible to take a heavily unbalanced system and finagle balanced results out of it; fundamentally, that's just entropy, it's easy to disrupt a finely-tuned mechanism, it is difficult to assemble a finely-tuned mechanism from random parts. But by and large, I think most of what people want is either just naturally compatible, or workable with up-front, opt-in rules that tell you why you'd want them and what goals they're meant to accomplish.</blockquote>