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<blockquote data-quote="Libramarian" data-source="post: 5938610" data-attributes="member: 6688858">Mike Mearls' <a href="http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/reviews/rev_1250.html" target="_blank">Keep on the Borderlands-bashing RPGnet review</a> was recently&nbsp; brought up in another thread. That was odd, but I was willing to give&nbsp; him a pass on it because it's 12 years old and it's supposed to be a&nbsp; comedy review.But now I've learned that Mike Mearls invented the phrase &quot;Mother May I&quot; (as it pertains to RPG design) <a href="http://mearls.livejournal.com/80639.html" target="_blank">here</a>.I know this is 7 years old, but still -- it's completely serious and he seems to have arrived at this position after a good deal of thought on the subject.This bit in particular I find frankly disturbingly cynical, in addition to being the complete opposite of what he's saying nowadays:He's talking about D&amp;D here...What do you think? Is it weirding you out that the guy who despises Keep on the Borderlands and coined the term &quot;Mother May I?&quot; is now singing the praises of old school D&amp;D and &quot;rulings not rules&quot;?I would like to see him talk a bit about how dramatically his opinions about RPGs have apparently changed. Until then I think I'm going to have to take everything he says as DDN team lead with a pinch of salt from now on.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Libramarian, post: 5938610, member: 6688858"] Mike Mearls' [URL="http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/reviews/rev_1250.html"]Keep on the Borderlands-bashing RPGnet review[/URL] was recently brought up in another thread. That was odd, but I was willing to give him a pass on it because it's 12 years old and it's supposed to be a comedy review. But now I've learned that Mike Mearls invented the phrase "Mother May I" (as it pertains to RPG design) [URL="http://mearls.livejournal.com/80639.html"]here[/URL]. I know this is 7 years old, but still -- it's completely serious and he seems to have arrived at this position after a good deal of thought on the subject. This bit in particular I find frankly disturbingly cynical, in addition to being the complete opposite of what he's saying nowadays: He's talking about D&D here... What do you think? Is it weirding you out that the guy who despises Keep on the Borderlands and coined the term "Mother May I?" is now singing the praises of old school D&D and "rulings not rules"? I would like to see him talk a bit about how dramatically his opinions about RPGs have apparently changed. Until then I think I'm going to have to take everything he says as DDN team lead with a pinch of salt from now on. [/QUOTE]

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