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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3768220" data-attributes="member: 4937">Speaking as DM, that playstyle is really taxing on me as a DM because I'm always forced to make something up.&nbsp;&nbsp; Invariably I end up inventing a resolution system, and then I guess that 'sucks all the creativity' out of it.&nbsp; I think that the resolution system that players like that really want is something closer to, &quot;Anything I can imagine, no matter how outlandish, has at least a 50% chance of success, and when it does succeed, it succeeds spectacularly.&quot;&nbsp; It is very much geared around, &quot;PC's are heroes, and everyone else is not.&nbsp; PC's have narrative force, and can do things, and NPC's do not.&quot;&nbsp; I've never met one player like that which was equally entertained by the DM being 'creative'.&nbsp; I'm sure there are some that don't mind when the chandeleer that they fired from the thier bow while leaping over the chasm of lava is deflected by an NPC's Tenser's Floating disk into another PC, knocking them off the ledge, but I just haven't met them.A mad cap game like that would seem to me to bring things back to the level of, &quot;I shot you.&nbsp; No, you missed.&nbsp; I shot you.&quot;, which is where my role playing had stagnated just before I discovered RPGs.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 3768220, member: 4937"] Speaking as DM, that playstyle is really taxing on me as a DM because I'm always forced to make something up. Invariably I end up inventing a resolution system, and then I guess that 'sucks all the creativity' out of it. I think that the resolution system that players like that really want is something closer to, "Anything I can imagine, no matter how outlandish, has at least a 50% chance of success, and when it does succeed, it succeeds spectacularly." It is very much geared around, "PC's are heroes, and everyone else is not. PC's have narrative force, and can do things, and NPC's do not." I've never met one player like that which was equally entertained by the DM being 'creative'. I'm sure there are some that don't mind when the chandeleer that they fired from the thier bow while leaping over the chasm of lava is deflected by an NPC's Tenser's Floating disk into another PC, knocking them off the ledge, but I just haven't met them. A mad cap game like that would seem to me to bring things back to the level of, "I shot you. No, you missed. I shot you.", which is where my role playing had stagnated just before I discovered RPGs. [/QUOTE]

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