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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMMichael" data-source="post: 6371884" data-attributes="member: 6685730">How do you emphasize that something's important without rules?Well, you could use guidelines.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />Back to rules, though.  Reading between the lines is difficult.  Even harder is writing between the lines.  Which is to say, the easiest way to make the game happen is to write rules for it.  Since you used D&D as an example, look at this:The 3e PHB used half of its pages describing combat and spells.The 5e PH uses about one third of its pages doing the same thing.Hopefully, this means that 5e is emphasizing combat and spells less, and other things more.  Regarding your examples of things that aren't amenable to rules, I think guidelines would work very well for such things.</blockquote>