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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6126751" data-attributes="member: 6696971">When I read commentary such as this from someone who should (must?) be intimately familiar with the source material, I am left stunned...stunned.  What can you do but wonder such things as:- Was this person mostly detached from the actual nuts and bolts design process, working mostly as a superficial quality control element (this is extraordinarily common on many projects I've been involved with; "lead designers" being represented as artisans for work they were only tangentially related to)?- Did this person actually play the game to the fully nuanced experience that the mechanics support?- Is this person's primary exposure to the gaming system (and the play experience ushered forth) witnessing the full-throttle, tactical war-gaming inherent to their Encounters program (rather than a home table where an actual campaign unfolds with understanding, committed players and GM)?Without one or more of the above as root cause for the above position, I am left baffled.  I would love for him to sit for a few sessions of any of our home games.  I'm certain that if he sat at my own table for a few weeks, it would be blatantly obvious that player empowerment and GM creative enterprise are not mutually exclusive...in fact, they are synergistic.  Player empowerment =/= GM relegated solely to "rules guy."  Facepalm or SMH is the appropriate internet response?</blockquote>