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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 5196916" data-attributes="member: 54846">I suppose that there might be a distinction. Ari's blog seems to touch on specialty cases all over the place. Things that were not "balanced" but were off the cuff uniqueness. Meanwhile, there are house rules you can make within something to create more balance, or that don't effect balance (per se), but can easily integrate within the system - they don't effect the system. The former I will call House rules Outside the system and the latter House Rules Inside the System. I can't think of a good outside the system Houserule - a corner case invention off the cuff situation? I donno. But I can think of one that's inside. Taking 4e, there's the notion of Passive Insight/Perception. Well, one house rule I am going to use is having all passive skills. For instance, if a PC with Nature encounters a natural beast, he'd get the monster knowledge info up front as if he had rolled a 10 on his knowledge nature check. A rogue with a passive thievery shouldn't even need to roll to pop open a locked drawer - the DC is underneath his passive thievery. That sort of rule facilitates an existing rule (Passive Insight/Perception) and merely emulates it in circumstances where other skills would function.</blockquote>