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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 5978153" data-attributes="member: 996">Part of 5e's mission is to support many play styles.  But, what does "support" really mean?  That is, in the context of a system "supporting" a play style.  (For purposes of this poll, 'play style' can mean whatever works for you - whether that's GNS or CaW/CaS or roll vs role or even just "the way I play the game" without examining what that 'way' is.  I'm interested in what people mean by 'support,' when they complain that a game doesn't 'support' what they want to do.)I'll add clarifications to the choices in this post, if anyone has questions or objections:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The game works smoothly when I play it in my prefered style.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Others can play in their styles at the same table without getting in the way of my style.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The game mechanically rewards my play style. 'Rewards' would be actual mechanical benefits - bigger bonuses, more abilities, greater effectiveness. In retrospect, I guess this is a player PoV thing.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The game mechanically <s>punishes</s> discourages play styles I dislike. 'Discourages' would be the polar opposite of 'rewards,' adopting a disfavored play style reduces your effectiveness - penalties, loss of actions, loss of options, etc...</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Playing the game by the rules-as-written naturally leads to playing it in the style I prefer. That is, leads anyone playing it naturally to that particular style.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Optional rules allow me, as a player, to customize it to better fit the style in which I play.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Optional rules allow me, as a DM, to customize it to encourage the style I prefer my players to use.  'Encourage' here would be much like 'reward' above, the system grants advantages to PCs if the player adopts the preferred style</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The system is rules-light enough for me, as a DM, to impose a style upon it by adding and modifying rules on the fly.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The system is open to modification, by the DM, to support a style in one or more of the above ways. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Other (please elaborate in a reply)</li> </ul></blockquote>

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