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<blockquote data-quote="CellarHeroes" data-source="post: 9622506" data-attributes="member: 7038956">Mearls is a gamer, who also just happens to be a designer.&nbsp; He's also very accessible, if you go to conventions or hang out here, so you can even ask him yourself.What a lot of us are using to interpret his meaning is context.&nbsp; Context from conversations, blogs, posts, and even games he's designed.If you're familiar with roleplaying games, let's say D&amp;D 5e in particular (a game he did some work on), you can see what he's talking about.&nbsp; As a GM, I create the world with the help of the tools he helped design.&nbsp; The players create their characters with the tools he helped design.&nbsp; Depending on your GM's style, some potential goals are presented to the PCs or the PCs come up with their own goals.&nbsp; The adventure begins...The PCs encounter obstacles that the GM creates using tools Mearls helped design.&nbsp; Some of those obstacles are monsters and NPCs who have tactics and powers.&nbsp; The PCs also have special abilities that he helped design.&nbsp; The GM uses the tactics and powers of the monsters while the PCs use tactics and powers.&nbsp; The GM's goal (while running the monsters) is to defeat the PCs, while the PC's goal is to defeat/overcome the monsters, all done while using the disinterested dice.&nbsp; If my goal as a GM wasn't to defeat the PCs, then the pack of gnolls would just stand there and do nothing besides hand out XP and treasure.&nbsp; We might as well be playing Candyland.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CellarHeroes, post: 9622506, member: 7038956"] Mearls is a gamer, who also just happens to be a designer. He's also very accessible, if you go to conventions or hang out here, so you can even ask him yourself. What a lot of us are using to interpret his meaning is context. Context from conversations, blogs, posts, and even games he's designed. If you're familiar with roleplaying games, let's say D&D 5e in particular (a game he did some work on), you can see what he's talking about. As a GM, I create the world with the help of the tools he helped design. The players create their characters with the tools he helped design. Depending on your GM's style, some potential goals are presented to the PCs or the PCs come up with their own goals. The adventure begins... The PCs encounter obstacles that the GM creates using tools Mearls helped design. Some of those obstacles are monsters and NPCs who have tactics and powers. The PCs also have special abilities that he helped design. The GM uses the tactics and powers of the monsters while the PCs use tactics and powers. The GM's goal (while running the monsters) is to defeat the PCs, while the PC's goal is to defeat/overcome the monsters, all done while using the disinterested dice. If my goal as a GM wasn't to defeat the PCs, then the pack of gnolls would just stand there and do nothing besides hand out XP and treasure. We might as well be playing Candyland. [/QUOTE]

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