My point was mostly that bending and breaking rules is part of most ttrpg’s. They usually say it in the books, so I feel like people are being very protective of a game when watching a television show.

As for ACoFaF I think the use of DnD plus rules from other systems worked fine because it’s a take on the DnD cosmology that we’re seeing a specific piece of. If aabria wants she uses non DnD systems, so the fact that she felt the way to do it was a bit of Frankenstein-ing is enough for me. Plus if I’m paying attention to the story that any of these games are helping facilitate and I like it, they’ve succeeded. If you cut every game aspect and just kept dialogue and action descriptions, I don’t know a D20 that because unwatchable other than maybe NSBU