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<blockquote data-quote="Imaro" data-source="post: 8802998" data-attributes="member: 48965">No... it's not prescriptive because it's not telling you how and when to use the cosmology.&nbsp; If it said something like the cosmology is only intended to be a distant backdrop for dungeoncrawling as opposed to an adventuring locale or vice versa...that would be prescriptive.&nbsp; Instead it's a tool for the DM to use as he sees fit.Because you are...1. Defining what &quot;OSR style&quot; games are (when the field has become so wide that your assumptions will by necessity exclude some OSR games) 2. Telling me how to use said tools to achieve your concept of &quot;OSR style&quot;... thus further reinforcing how you've defined OSR style because, well... this is the way you do it.Yes that's prescriptive.No it's not but I think at the end of the day you'd like to believe that because it makes the other side easier to dismiss as opposed to actually address.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Imaro, post: 8802998, member: 48965"] No... it's not prescriptive because it's not telling you how and when to use the cosmology. If it said something like the cosmology is only intended to be a distant backdrop for dungeoncrawling as opposed to an adventuring locale or vice versa...that would be prescriptive. Instead it's a tool for the DM to use as he sees fit. Because you are... 1. Defining what "OSR style" games are (when the field has become so wide that your assumptions will by necessity exclude some OSR games) 2. Telling me how to use said tools to achieve your concept of "OSR style"... thus further reinforcing how you've defined OSR style because, well... this is the way you do it. Yes that's prescriptive. No it's not but I think at the end of the day you'd like to believe that because it makes the other side easier to dismiss as opposed to actually address. [/QUOTE]

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