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<blockquote data-quote="wakedown" data-source="post: 8108825" data-attributes="member: 15901">&quot;Run as written&quot; is an important thing in Paizo-land, particularly because of the development of the broader gaming culture Paizo cultivated in its wider playerbase via adventures and Pathfinder Society.&nbsp;&nbsp; The goal for organized play was to ensure a consistent experience through adventures (inclusive of Society scenarios and sanctioned Adventure Paths) and to not have a wide variance in play where one group had a TPK in an encounter and the other group overcame it due to GM fiat on rules.&nbsp;&nbsp; This was even more important as players moved from GM to GM and it was a question of permissiveness to use certain edge rules between tables because you'd end up with 4th, 5th, 6th, etc level characters that were given permission to do something ruleswise only to finally reach an arbiter who would say &quot;no the rules don't allow that&quot;.&nbsp; A lot of PF1E rules were &quot;gimmicky&quot; or borderline exploits so rules interpretation as close to RAW became a critical part of the wider, disparate groups orbiting and engaging in FLGS gaming.&nbsp;&nbsp; Society volunteer leadership felt the instruction was to make things as black and white as possible which permeated the culture.For a consumer who just picked up a couple books and played exclusively with their home group, they would have likely not been aware that the bulk of the active gaming audience was mired in heated RAW debates during the height of Paizo gaming.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wakedown, post: 8108825, member: 15901"] "Run as written" is an important thing in Paizo-land, particularly because of the development of the broader gaming culture Paizo cultivated in its wider playerbase via adventures and Pathfinder Society. The goal for organized play was to ensure a consistent experience through adventures (inclusive of Society scenarios and sanctioned Adventure Paths) and to not have a wide variance in play where one group had a TPK in an encounter and the other group overcame it due to GM fiat on rules. This was even more important as players moved from GM to GM and it was a question of permissiveness to use certain edge rules between tables because you'd end up with 4th, 5th, 6th, etc level characters that were given permission to do something ruleswise only to finally reach an arbiter who would say "no the rules don't allow that". A lot of PF1E rules were "gimmicky" or borderline exploits so rules interpretation as close to RAW became a critical part of the wider, disparate groups orbiting and engaging in FLGS gaming. Society volunteer leadership felt the instruction was to make things as black and white as possible which permeated the culture. For a consumer who just picked up a couple books and played exclusively with their home group, they would have likely not been aware that the bulk of the active gaming audience was mired in heated RAW debates during the height of Paizo gaming. [/QUOTE]

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