Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
The
VOIDRUNNER'S CODEX
is coming! Explore new worlds, fight oppressive empires, fend off fearsome aliens, and wield deadly psionics with this comprehensive boxed set expansion for 5E and A5E!
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Supposing D&D is gamist, what does that mean?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8637091" data-attributes="member: 6790260"><p>You will be unsurprised to know that I find it <em>utterly terrifying</em> that the United Kingdom does not actually have a constitution,* and (moreover) I find its legal doctrine of Parliamentary Sovereignty to be one of the scariest possible powers one could give a government. Parliament can, literally at any time and for any reason, pass any law it wants, even laws that cannot be fulfilled or that directly contradict other laws. There are no limits on what Parliament is allowed to do; it is truly, absolutely supreme. There's just a lot of <em>decorum</em> involved in persuading them to not use that power in ways it could be used.</p><p></p><p>As for the point about the debate on rules: I am, very much, alleging that a game built genuinely around unlimited "DM says" does not, truly, have a "system" in any sense. It has players who submit to the will of an absolute dictator. They may be a benevolent dictator, a Cincinnatus, or they may be a despotic one, a Nero. But they are nonetheless a dictator with absolute power (within the play-space) and zero limitations.</p><p></p><p>*People like to say it has an "uncodified constitution." That literally just means "we have a lot of old laws that would upset people if we got rid of them," again a decorum issue. All systems depend on decorum to some degree; the UK has chosen to make decorum decide what things are part of their constitution in the first place.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 8637091, member: 6790260"] You will be unsurprised to know that I find it [I]utterly terrifying[/I] that the United Kingdom does not actually have a constitution,* and (moreover) I find its legal doctrine of Parliamentary Sovereignty to be one of the scariest possible powers one could give a government. Parliament can, literally at any time and for any reason, pass any law it wants, even laws that cannot be fulfilled or that directly contradict other laws. There are no limits on what Parliament is allowed to do; it is truly, absolutely supreme. There's just a lot of [I]decorum[/I] involved in persuading them to not use that power in ways it could be used. As for the point about the debate on rules: I am, very much, alleging that a game built genuinely around unlimited "DM says" does not, truly, have a "system" in any sense. It has players who submit to the will of an absolute dictator. They may be a benevolent dictator, a Cincinnatus, or they may be a despotic one, a Nero. But they are nonetheless a dictator with absolute power (within the play-space) and zero limitations. *People like to say it has an "uncodified constitution." That literally just means "we have a lot of old laws that would upset people if we got rid of them," again a decorum issue. All systems depend on decorum to some degree; the UK has chosen to make decorum decide what things are part of their constitution in the first place. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Supposing D&D is gamist, what does that mean?
Top