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<blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 8191572" data-attributes="member: 6696971">I appreciate your apology but no worries and its not necessary.Let us take 5e and Dungeon World and one instance of a lack of action resolution for Wizards.vsThere are many spells like Light in 5e (where there is no action resolution component).&nbsp; So how is proficiency or potency determined?Contrast with DW.&nbsp; Every Light Spell requires the below move be made:So, in Dungeon World, you may have a proficiency/potency complication that emerges (the first bullet point) or it may be something else.&nbsp; But in 5e, Light will always be cast perfectly...forever.&nbsp; Just like many, many other spells (Alarm, Knock, Jump, etc).I would say its pretty straight-forward what happened here.1)&nbsp; Gygax parceled out elegance, (in)consistency, (dis)functionality, and &quot;uuuuuh&quot; pretty arbitrarily.2)&nbsp; Subsequent designers honored that (or didn't).3)&nbsp; This is either a feature or a bug depending upon your outlook.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Manbearcat, post: 8191572, member: 6696971"] I appreciate your apology but no worries and its not necessary. Let us take 5e and Dungeon World and one instance of a lack of action resolution for Wizards. vs There are many spells like Light in 5e (where there is no action resolution component). So how is proficiency or potency determined? Contrast with DW. Every Light Spell requires the below move be made: So, in Dungeon World, you may have a proficiency/potency complication that emerges (the first bullet point) or it may be something else. But in 5e, Light will always be cast perfectly...forever. Just like many, many other spells (Alarm, Knock, Jump, etc). I would say its pretty straight-forward what happened here. 1) Gygax parceled out elegance, (in)consistency, (dis)functionality, and "uuuuuh" pretty arbitrarily. 2) Subsequent designers honored that (or didn't). 3) This is either a feature or a bug depending upon your outlook. [/QUOTE]

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