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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ExploderWizard" data-source="post: 6161985" data-attributes="member: 66434">Certainly. Statements are one thing, encouragement is another. The marketing to the playerbase encourages something quite different. It wasn't WOTC alone that grew the cult of officialdom. After all, a game company can produce product, but they can't force anyone to use it in a particular way. The clever part is arranging for your customers to demand to be dictated to from on high themselves. How brilliant. Agreed. That hasn't happened.  It would hardly solve anything. As you already stated, the "encouragement"  to freely ignore rules is already in the books.  I must be imagining that there are players claiming that they won't play a given game without an ongoing flow of support. That will never happen. No one is such a blind idiot that they require a steady stream of new "official" mechanical fiddly bits from the gaming gods on a regular basis to maintain interest in a game of imagination. And certainly no one has refused to participate in a game that deviates from holy RAW. That would be silly! Thanks for putting my mind at ease. Don't know what I was thinking.</blockquote>