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Message: <blockquote data-quote="P1NBACK" data-source="post: 5318383" data-attributes="member: 83768">I would just like to point out that rules aren't really player resources. Player resources are things like, powers - skills - feats - hit points - surges - etc... These are things on the character sheet the player can use to engage his character with the fiction. Rules are there to help adjudicate the flow of the fiction and how your resources interact with the fiction. If you do something, use some of your resources, rules help explain how that interacts with the fiction at the table. So, as a player, I know I have "Intimidate +12" or whatever. I know that this is a resource I can use to accomplish things in the fiction. I can approach an NPC, describe how I slam him up against the brothel wall in the alley and force him to tell me who he was planning to ambush. The rules kick in - the DM adjudicates a DC using the rules as a guideline (and let's make it clear here... the DM sets the DC based on Common Sense - what she thinks the DC should be set at), I roll my Intimidate check add my bonus, then we compare it to the DC - then we go BACK to the fiction. The DM describes the smell of piss permeating the frigid air. The poor guy has pissed himself in fright of you. He hastily explains that he was going to ambush the pretty red haired girl and her husband. But... He's leaving things out. You know he's still hiding details from you. Now what?</blockquote>