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Message: <blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 8634858" data-attributes="member: 71699">I found that "privileged as an exception" wording jarring. For me, describing a quality in one game is silent on its presence or lack in others.It's fairly common knowledge among game designers that a system can be built for expressiveness and designability. PbtA is a great example, although it's approach is very different from 5e. Expressiveness isn't the same as designability, and 5e and PbtA have both.Designability let's you prototype deftly. So that there is a high probability your design will work. 5e carries over some bad habits from 3e: it's modularity isn't quite as modular as it looks. Not all RPGs are equal on these qualities. Possibly of greater interest are the different ways it can be achieved.But anyway, I wanted to say that I can appreciate that if I disliked 5e it could vex me to have it dominate the discourse! This is a thread on D&D so it naturally is very relevant here. If I mean a contrast in the form "Y does thing better than X" I will try to make that obvious.[EDIT In several responses I sense a shared concern for a dichotomy. Game quality is not a dichotomy: the presence or degree of a quality in one game doesn't make it any less available to others.]</blockquote>