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Message: <blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 9389406" data-attributes="member: 86653">It’s not an undefined resolution. It’s acknowledging you can’t reasonably have rules for everything. Trying to leads to never really getting to play because you have to constantly stop play to look up rules. You will inevitably have gaps in the rules. That’s what the human referee is there to do, make calls. Saying you don’t want the referee making calls is intentionally tossing out the uniqueness of RPGs. Yes, those other points are true and they’re true because you have a referee there making calls.“I want it all spelled out ahead of time in black and white so I know exactly what’s what and no deviation allowed.” Yeah, you want a video game not a tabletop RPG.It’s the same old weird argument. People trust the referee to create the world, create the monsters, create every NPC in the cosmos, run the adventure, distribute treasure, roll fair, math right, and everything else the referee needs to do…but for some reason determining what to roll to jump on a monster’s back is somehow a bridge too far.“It’ll be chaos! The referee can’t be trusted.”It’s just your typical Saturday night at the table playing RPGs. Relax. Trust the referee. If they were out to get you they could get you with two words. “You’re dead.” Did they do that? No? Then relax.</blockquote>