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Message: <blockquote data-quote="herald" data-source="post: 1311755" data-attributes="member: 1112">And that's all well and good, but the original poster identified folks that he (or she) games with as lowlifes. And while I'm sure that they meant it all in jest, I feel that it's safe to assume that we can let loose with are own commentary however we see fit. I don't really see how anyone here is really beating him up really.It seems that Storm Gorm is looking for a more immersive fantasy game. And that's fine. For a while I was a Vampire player and Storyteller, and I tried to incorporate all I could to make the game as expansive and immersive as possible. But being rules lite is not as easy as one thinks.IMHO, all RPG's are pumped up versions of "Let's Pretend". There are many differant genres of Let's Pretend. There is cops and robbers, cowboys and indians, space monsters and astronauts, knights and dragons, ect, ect. But as a kid, the trick was that not everybody had the same expectations on how it worked, true, you could argue it out. I shot you!No you didn't, you missed!Yes I did! Your dead!You couldn't shoot me, I'm behind a shed!I can shoot through a shed!That's no fair, you can't even see me!So rules are created to make sure that everone is playing on the same page so to speak. Now granted, it prevents some creativity,...I shot you!You can't shoot me, I have a force field up.What do you mean you have a foce field up, you're a dragon!Look whos talking, you have a gun and your only a knight.But at least you have a expectation of what can happen and what can't. And so RPG's have rules. By having expectations in some form, it allows people to be able to play in the same imaginary space together.</blockquote>

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