D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

[Enrahim]

But strangely, some people don't want to take that advice to any other game.

D&D is allowed to be weird and goofy and rules can be ignored and replaced at a whim, but other games must be adhered to exactly.

This was a forge thing. "System matters", "protect players against GM abuse" and all that jazz. I never heard anything about strict rules as written because of design in connection with any rpgs before the 2000s. D&D 3ed manage to come out just before this was a thing and hence wasn't affected too badly by this perception. Look at how 4ed is perceived, and I guess it is easy to recognice that this has nothing to do with the D&D brand as such.

 

[Deset Gled]

This was a forge thing.

The Forge was the biggest step forward we have ever seen in RPG design, and also the two biggest steps back.