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<blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 1965171" data-attributes="member: 18549">I think most of the &quot;you're playing D&amp;D wrong&quot; comments come out of situations in which people have differences of opinion over the &quot;official&quot; interpretation of the RAW.&nbsp; The official reading defines how the &quot;standard&quot; game of D&amp;D should go.&nbsp; So if one person says, &quot;according to the rules, all x are y,&quot; and a second person says, &quot;no, we've always played with rules such that all x are z,&quot; the first person might come back and say, &quot;well that's a nice house rule, but according to the rules, that's not correct.&quot;So then the second person responds with, &quot;no, we play the game as it's written.&nbsp; You're the one with house rules.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; And it becomes an argument over who's playing the game &quot;wrong&quot; because both sides believe that they're playing it &quot;right,&quot; and refuse to allow that their interpretation is either:1. one of several interpretations that can be read out of the rules as written2. a misreading of the rules or house ruleMost of the problems come from 1, but there's also a lot of 2 going on around here.&nbsp; But the reason why it turns into a &quot;you're playing wrong&quot; kind of situation is because each side thinks they're playing right, but their styles are mutually exclusive and they both want to be acknowledged as the &quot;official&quot; way to play.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lonely Tylenol, post: 1965171, member: 18549"] I think most of the "you're playing D&D wrong" comments come out of situations in which people have differences of opinion over the "official" interpretation of the RAW. The official reading defines how the "standard" game of D&D should go. So if one person says, "according to the rules, all x are y," and a second person says, "no, we've always played with rules such that all x are z," the first person might come back and say, "well that's a nice house rule, but according to the rules, that's not correct." So then the second person responds with, "no, we play the game as it's written. You're the one with house rules." And it becomes an argument over who's playing the game "wrong" because both sides believe that they're playing it "right," and refuse to allow that their interpretation is either: 1. one of several interpretations that can be read out of the rules as written 2. a misreading of the rules or house rule Most of the problems come from 1, but there's also a lot of 2 going on around here. But the reason why it turns into a "you're playing wrong" kind of situation is because each side thinks they're playing right, but their styles are mutually exclusive and they both want to be acknowledged as the "official" way to play. [/QUOTE]

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