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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8373058" data-attributes="member: 16814">Simply put, because of statements like this paired with your clear advocacy.  You advocate cheerfully and enthusiastically, which is great by the way, for some fairly specific approaches, but when those are questioned or attempted to be discussed with detail or critique, you shunt that off as why bother thinking so hard about it.  Which is fine, you're not required to, and it's not a bad thing to not want to at all.  The issue, I think, arises when you immediately pivot back to the advocacy as if the questions were well dealt with by your dismissal.  If you want to talk about games, let's talk, but it really seems you only want to talk about games in a way that you're right and dismiss as to whatever any discussion that introduces critique.I mean, one can paint miniatures and advocate for it and use nothing but four colors + black and white with no advanced techniques and be just fine.  However, when someone brings up how a wash can really help or the ins and outs of glazing vs layering or methods of zenithal highlighting you just dismiss them as too nerdy for such a simple hobby... you're going to get some pushback for dismissing others' interests in a deeper analysis/understanding/technique.Actually, they're not deviations from the game.  The game is quite clear that the rules for social interaction are one way to approach things, and leave plenty of room for just play-acting out the scene.  I quite like the social rules, even if I find them to be rather prep intensive.  They work pretty gosh darn well for what they are.  The BIFTs are the same -- namely the rules for Inspiration are a collection of "you could do this or this or this or something else entirely, it's up to you GM!"  As such, the things you're advocating for are in the rules, yes, but so are a number of things that don't look like your preference at all!But, there's nothing at all similar on the exploration pillar, where they don't even lay out a process like the social rules anywhere outside of how far you travel during a day of travel and how fast march works.  The social rules govern the key conflict of the social pillar.  The exploration rules chip at the outsides and never establish any core systems.  You can build a coherent one, for the most part, by picking up certain examples and suggestions and giving them the force of RAW at the table, but you still need to build in some GM provided frameworks.  The exploration pillar, if summed up, is nothing more than "ask your GM how this works."There are very few, and it's mostly cornice work on the pillar.</blockquote>

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