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<blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 8935549" data-attributes="member: 71699">One view I have on this, which I don't want to put forward with too much vigour, is that a given RPG played differently by different groups can well amount to different games. It's possible that is what you were encountering if speaking primarily of personal gaming preferences.Otherwise, for me it is not clear what you might mean in saying that you are judging within the (GM-authored, railroady, low player-agency) paradigm and finding it whiffy. Would you concede the possibility that there were those for whom that was their intended and satisfactory mode of play? I think this has come up before: criticisms that I might call subjective, appearing to be put forward as objective.Beyond normative statements (which you are not making, right?) I feel like there is no &quot;objective&quot; criticism of any mode of play.Absolutely. I did not take it that way.I think the similarity provides contrast, in that no RPG is solely pre-authored. Ongoing authorship is at the heart of all RPG. That's more a technical definition than value judgement.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="clearstream, post: 8935549, member: 71699"] One view I have on this, which I don't want to put forward with too much vigour, is that a given RPG played differently by different groups can well amount to [I]different games[/I]. It's possible that is what you were encountering if speaking primarily of personal gaming preferences. Otherwise, for me it is not clear what you might mean in saying that you are judging within the (GM-authored, railroady, low player-agency) paradigm and finding it whiffy. Would you concede the possibility that there were those for whom that was their intended and satisfactory mode of play? I think this has come up before: criticisms that I might call subjective, appearing to be put forward as objective. Beyond normative statements (which you are not making, right?) I feel like there is no "objective" criticism of any mode of play. Absolutely. I did not take it that way. I think the similarity provides contrast, in that no RPG is solely pre-authored. Ongoing authorship is at the heart of all RPG. That's more a technical definition than value judgement. [/QUOTE]

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