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<blockquote data-quote="The-Magic-Sword" data-source="post: 8596170" data-attributes="member: 6801252">Honestly, I'm not huge on the idea of focused, prescriptive play styles always producing a better experience, I think it introduces trade offs because sometimes you want to do something outside of it without necessarily breaking from the current game. I think its the current movement in a lot of the RPG scene, but I don't think its the be all end all of good design.A game designed to be less prescriptive can deliberately choose mechanics that support multiple styles without actually being worse for it. I don't regard 5e as a great example, but that's just because I don't love it as a system, and I think it breaks down too easily. But something like 4e, or especially PF2e, succeeds in terms of design because they're good at adding elements of the game that the people using the game system can use to different degrees or in different ways and still have a good time with the game. Its just that different games might require you to emphasize parts of the same rule set, you know?I did recently pick up Cortex Prime, after one of my players was looking through the Xadia game, and I'm interested in trying it out at some point-- the idea of universal systems with toolboxes you can implement to create whatever experience you please seems super compatible with my preferences, but we'll see how it plays out at my table someday, we like our texture.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The-Magic-Sword, post: 8596170, member: 6801252"] Honestly, I'm not huge on the idea of focused, prescriptive play styles always producing a better experience, I think it introduces trade offs because sometimes you want to do something outside of it without necessarily breaking from the current game. I think its the current movement in a lot of the RPG scene, but I don't think its the be all end all of good design. A game designed to be less prescriptive can deliberately choose mechanics that support multiple styles without actually being worse for it. I don't regard 5e as a great example, but that's just because I don't love it as a system, and I think it breaks down too easily. But something like 4e, or especially PF2e, succeeds in terms of design because they're good at adding elements of the game that the people using the game system can use to different degrees or in different ways and still have a good time with the game. Its just that different games might require you to emphasize parts of the same rule set, you know? I did recently pick up Cortex Prime, after one of my players was looking through the Xadia game, and I'm interested in trying it out at some point-- the idea of universal systems with toolboxes you can implement to create whatever experience you please [I]seems [/I]super compatible with my preferences, but we'll see how it plays out at my table someday, we like our texture. [/QUOTE]

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