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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Belphanior" data-source="post: 4088760" data-attributes="member: 12401">I await the final implementation of this system, but the principle seems sound. D&D has a long history of saying "no!" to players simply because it doesn't account for it in the rulesystem. You're chased and overturn a cart of apples. * Do the guards stumble, trip, and lose sight of you? Effectively negating an entire encounter with a single sentence? They can't be that incompetent.* Maybe they have to make balance checks? What's the DC for apples on a marketplace? And do we really want to track each individual's full/half movement over squares of "difficult terrain" the entire time? That's even more mini oriented than 4E!* Do we just ignore a <s>cool</s> grand and cinematic idea and say the game has no rules for apples and thus the guards ignore them?* Or do I just pull something out of my ass based on nothing more than how my mood is? Is this even remotely fair? Don't I punish the people who can't think of cinematic stunts on the fly by doing this?A system like this sounds like it encourages stunts and adjudicates them in a fair manner. Exceptionally good or bad ideas probably receive modifiers to the skill checks (just like every other skill check ever) but overall PCs can be daring and inventive. Roll Arcane to make a simple candle flare and belch out thick clouds of smoke. Roll Intimidate to startle some animals and set off a stampede. Roll Acrobatics to tumble through the street performers that walk on hot coals and juggle swords (wouldn't want to follow you through there!). At least players can attempt all this without being told "I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you do that. I don't have rules for that in my books." Here's just hoping they don't take that concept and mess up the execution.</blockquote>

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