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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8151168" data-attributes="member: 29398">There's the occasional cursed item that all you need to do is try it and you keel over dead - no save (Cloak of Poison in 1e is one; I lost a PC to one of these not that long ago).  But yes, I still see it as a rules-free session even if mechanics do arise briefly here and there.I don't think you did but others have, or have implied it, in one of two opposite ways: 'jump to the scene' (i.e. skip everything between now and that scene), or 'roll the damn dice' (to short-circuit in-character RP usually in social encounters).I don;t have anything formalized to near that extent.  Sure, there's often a soft switch to what we call 'rubber time' when parties are in town and it's not too important what gets done in what sequence, but there's no formal 'interlude' or 'challenge' delineators.  I guess the only such would be when we move into or out of combat initiative.I'm not thinking so much about what colour to paint Grandma's house (though we did have a sequence not long ago where a prankster PC [three guesses whose!] hatched a rather elaborate plan to paint someone's castle in shocking pink), but more of things that might or might not have later impact e.g. even something as simple as deciding which PCs are going into the field next and what they want to do when they get there.  Completely in character, completely rules-free, completely player-driven, and yet relevant to future play in the campaign.</blockquote>

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