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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6652268" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>I just look at it this way, for my purposes I don't need statements telling me that I can 'do it my way'. I've been DMing for pretty close to 40 years now, I do it my way. The role, for me, for rules is to provide RULES, things I can just read and say &quot;ah, OK, so when X happens the player makes a check, like so.&quot; Now, if I don't like the way something works, then I change it. After 40 years I don't even have to think about this, I just figure it out how I need it to be, but its EASIER if there's less figuring out. So when someone says &quot;rulings not rules&quot; its not, for me, a great sign. Its telling me, &quot;yeah, you will have to figure this stuff out&quot; vs &quot;maybe the rule is fine, try it.&quot; And honestly, in most reasonably well-designed games the rules work OK. They definitely worked fine in 4e. They work OK in 5e too, most of the time, but they seem to have this fetish with writing incomplete or niche rules sometimes.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 6652268, member: 82106"] I just look at it this way, for my purposes I don't need statements telling me that I can 'do it my way'. I've been DMing for pretty close to 40 years now, I do it my way. The role, for me, for rules is to provide RULES, things I can just read and say "ah, OK, so when X happens the player makes a check, like so." Now, if I don't like the way something works, then I change it. After 40 years I don't even have to think about this, I just figure it out how I need it to be, but its EASIER if there's less figuring out. So when someone says "rulings not rules" its not, for me, a great sign. Its telling me, "yeah, you will have to figure this stuff out" vs "maybe the rule is fine, try it." And honestly, in most reasonably well-designed games the rules work OK. They definitely worked fine in 4e. They work OK in 5e too, most of the time, but they seem to have this fetish with writing incomplete or niche rules sometimes. [/QUOTE]

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