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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aaron L" data-source="post: 1678706" data-attributes="member: 926">Thank you for the fascinating answeres, but now I really must ask: why bother using a game system at all, if you just want the DM to decide the chances for everything based solely on his judgement?  I'm afraid the such a setup is something that I would never want to play, I'd rather write a story about my character than make up the rules about how to play him and then make up the rest of the rules on the fly.Putting so much into the hands of the DM means that you are limiting DMing to only those who can come up with complete rulesets on the fly.  I know I would never trust myself to make arbitrary decisions like that based solely on my judgement, and trust myself to be consistent in such rulings.  Rules divide the  burden between the DM and the players, a common framework that everyone can know and use.  It seems that you want all of the work on the shoulders of the DM, only he knows (and makes!) the rules, the players just kind of ask if they can do things and the DM decides if they can do it based only on his reasoning.  It seems like an awful lot to take on yourself.Of course, I'm NOT arguing that the game is horrible or that you shouldn't play.  I'm arguing that it ISN'T superior to my game and that I would never ever ever in a million years want to play a game like that.</blockquote>