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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5363634" data-attributes="member: 82106">Yeah, I think a good discussion of the do's and don'ts of improvisational actions would be OK. Tell players what kinds of things to think about and why certain situations should be handled in certain ways (and maybe a bit of a list of different ways to handle it depending on the overall feel that the DM is trying to give to the situation). It seems to me there is a lot that sort of goes unsaid about what the role of rules really is in a game. A lot of theorizing and philosophizing has been done on the boards, but from what I've seen about the Essentials debates there really is not a lot of understanding of what the different aspects of the system are trying to achieve and how they fit together.Of course I'm not sure the 4e devs are actually the best people to write that, they seem to have their own fairly siloed spin on things. Really it almost feels like it wants to be written from an outside perspective.</blockquote>