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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9203285" data-attributes="member: 42582">You could design a board game with a I carry my friend through ponds rule. Forbidden Island has a version of such a rule.But if you read the Moldvay Basic rulebook you will not see any such rule, because Moldvay Basic is not a board game.Here is the basic rule for permissible player-side move (ie action declarations) in Moldvay Basic (pp B2, B3, B4, B60):The D&D game has neither losers nor winners, it has only gamers who relish exercising their imagination. The players and the DM share in creating adventures in fantastic lands . . . This game . . . does not use a playing board or actual playing pieces. All that is needed to play are these rules, the dice included in this set, pencil and paper, graph paper, and imagination. . . . At the start of the game, the players enter the dungeon and the DM describes what the characters can see. . .  the players should select one lay to speak for the entire group . . . That player is named the caller. When unusual situations occur, each player may want to say exactly what his or her character is doing. . . . "That's not in the rules!" The players will often surprise the DM by doing the unexpected. . . . All DMs learn how to handle both new ideas an unusual actions quickly and with imagination. . . . One quick way for a DM to decide whether a solution will work is by imagining the situation, and then choosing percentage chances for different possibilities.What characterises D&D, and other games in the same family of games (generally known as RPGs or "TT" RPGs), is that the permissible moves are not defined in advance by a set of rules or formulas or mechanics for defining and transforming the "gamestate".Permissible moves are whatever everyone at the table agrees is possible for this character in this imagined situation. The rules and mechanics help shape that agreement and that shared imagination.</blockquote>

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