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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Balesir" data-source="post: 6244450" data-attributes="member: 27160">Excuse me for butting into this shard of the ongoing style wars, but this snippet from the original poster's further explanation intrigued me: [MENTION=58416]Johnny3D3D[/MENTION], could you explain what you mean by "the story that the game was trying to tell"?My own general view is that the mechanics are the game, for this purpose (i.e. "the game" is whatever the mechanics produce), but it would seem that you have a different view. That might help explain some differences of style/expectation, maybe. Is this, perhaps, similar to [MENTION=42582]pemerton[/MENTION]'s described clash between the expectations engendered by the BD&D introduction and the actual rules that he experienced? Or something different?</blockquote>