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Half a dozen posts and no toilet humor yet? I'm really sorry to say this, but I'm flushed with disappointment

Which leads nicely back the the OP -- in 5E, do the rules set the default with built-in dials on how to adjust it (ie., not asking S'mon on Enworld about houseruling) or do the rules provide the options and have you set the default? In this case, do PCs get better at everything by default (4E)...

I think the 3E approach has its flaws, at least one being that NPCs use the same skill points and level track, but yes, I don't think that PCs get better at everything in a more simulationist game. I don't think that wizards get better at bashing doors and I don't Hercules gets better at...

Or believable :) For me, by default or status quo, a wizard doesn't do anything to earn being better at bashing doors at demigod level. Unless he boosted his Str, he didn't get physically stronger (think Epic Raistlin) and so the door doesn't get any easier to open physically. He DID get better...

I don't mean to keep interjecting on this, but which edition is this theoretically for: 5E Core, 5E Narrativist, 5E Simulationist? If there is no "Lore"/Simulationist edition, that's fine, never mind me, please carry on. If there is, and this is going into the Core or Simulationist ruleset, I...

Sounds good, but not by Tier in a simulationist edition of game I hope.

Gotcha. Well, some people need less thunder soup than others and yet are equally happy. From a player POV, I'm not tallying my share of the thunder. I could wait patiently for a session or two and shine on the 3rd session. I feel fortunate that everyone I've played with I think has felt the same...

I'm imagining tons of grey areas in a streamlined non-complicated game. Say the rule is: 'It takes 1 move action to open an average door in average combat.' How about heavy stone doors? Stuck doors? Rusted doors? A door knob covered in oil? If you use a crowbar? A high Str PC vs a low Str PC...

Or a 3E high Cha sorcerer and a bard -- not impossible. What if there's two fighters in the group with similar Int + Wis. One player is very sharp and much better at tactics and strategy than the other. Should the better player dumb down their tactics as to not outshine the other player? OK, I...

I'm getting confused. I agree the referee (DM) generally shouldn't create rules out of thin air ("Oh here comes a dinosaur, he shoots you with lasers, you die"). But referees do make calls for actions that fall into a grey area. The audience and athletes (possibly hindered by their respective...

And what if both PCs have high Cha but one player is more charismatic and she's the one that makes the group laugh and clap with her sharp insight and clever verbal jousting with NPCs. Both players are roleplaying their Cha stat, but she's stealing the thunder. The DM may unconsciously reward...

In real-life sports, cheating (i.e, performance enhancing drugs) gives an unfair advantage. It is a competition of innate performance, so artificially enhancing your natural abilities is unfair. If the competition was about sumtotal performance (natural, drug-enhancing, cybernetics), then...

We had a LARP last week. My friend Hardy, who is stout and strong, played a gnome. His friend, Laurel, who is tall and thin, played a mountain giant. So of course, they get into a RL squabble during the game, but they're fighting in-character, right? So Laurel cries that Hardy should be pulling...

The way I read it, it sounds like an overly black-and-white statement. The OP is exactly about adjusting the temperature of the rules and how else should it happen. If a sports game requires a referee to interpret the rules and adjudicate player behavior, that is not a "poor way" to regulate...

As I trained to explain... I thought that "indie/modern/gamist" design was about improving the strength of the system and reducing reliance on good experienced DMs and Mother May I in order to have a great experience. That a flexible freeform system (like 1E) doesn't include built-in railings...

More streamlined. If possible, complexity without being complicated. Because of the range of emotions that I see in the hobby, like on rpg.net, posters literally swearing (I acknowledge some people are less civil on the Internet). I think it helps to have a certain amount of roleplaying...

Maybe/probably, but when I got into the hobby at a young age, I didn't have friends who played alternative systems. Everyone I knew played D&D. And I was loyal to the D&D brand (I suppose I assumed it was the best system because it was the most popular). Although there were definitely gamist...

That must have been agonizing! I would have used my Wand of Rewind (found in a 1974 copy of Eldritch Wizardry never published in our timeline) to save the event in the wand. After fighting the lich, I'd load the game from my last save and try again to put helm on. I can't do that kind of thing...

I agree that it would be safer if a 4E DM got player consensus to change rules if that would alter the expected playstyle. In 5E, we don't know which playstyle(s) will be supported. I would be curious to know why Monte and Mearls are talking about complexity dials and temperatures of the rules...

Sure, although I can imagine a conversation like "You describe it as killing sacred cows, but you're not playing D&D then" in reference to the transition from 3E to 4E, and presumably 4E to 5E. And so it goes...