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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8933748" data-attributes="member: 18">This is a great point, and I experienced the same to some significant degree. Read a lot of stuff that opened my eyes/brain over the years. I mean sheesh I really only finally got how important fiction was relative to rules when I ran Dungeon World (though I will say, when I first started running RPGs I had the fiction as paramount, it was just something gradually worn away by decades of rules-heavy RPGs and degraded by some terrible DMs in the '90s putting the fiction first only when it suited them).The most problematic response is the one where, when you finally get someone to understand that the way D&amp;D does X is not the way all RPGs necessarily need to do X, they then just insist that [Example RPG] is a bad RPG or even, as I've seen a few times, &quot;not an RPG&quot; for doing it that way. Videogamers who are relatively new to TTRPGs and only familiar with the D&amp;D are weirdly some of the most ultra-dogmatic on this in our present era.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8933748, member: 18"] This is a great point, and I experienced the same to some significant degree. Read a lot of stuff that opened my eyes/brain over the years. I mean sheesh I really only finally got how important fiction was relative to rules when I ran Dungeon World (though I will say, when I first started running RPGs I had the fiction as paramount, it was just something gradually worn away by decades of rules-heavy RPGs and degraded by some terrible DMs in the '90s putting the fiction first only when it suited them). The most problematic response is the one where, when you finally get someone to understand that the way D&D does X is not the way all RPGs necessarily need to do X, they then just insist that [Example RPG] is a bad RPG or even, as I've seen a few times, "not an RPG" for doing it that way. Videogamers who are relatively new to TTRPGs and only familiar with the D&D are weirdly some of the most ultra-dogmatic on this in our present era. [/QUOTE]

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