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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7064233" data-attributes="member: 996">Not sure I follow that, do you mean like a published adventure, or that the game has a specific scope or something? Yep, I can see that.  With RPGs it's rare not to see some DM judgement applied to resolution, at least some of the time (which rule applies, for instance), but a core resolution system like 5e's, that requires DM adjudication prettymuch every time, conditions players to accept that aspect of the DM role, leading to an atmosphere of DM Empowerment, and thus enabling 'illusionism.'   How does a game do that, when the GM might go ahead and change it's rules? IMX, groups often play the game they do not because it's theoretically ideally suited for the style they prefer (even assuming they all prefer the same style, each have a strong style preference, or can even articulate any such preference), but because it's the game they can all agree to play - often due to all having some familiarity with it, already.</blockquote>