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<blockquote data-quote="Pedantic" data-source="post: 9581955" data-attributes="member: 6690965">I think you may have confused me with someone else. My stance has always been that it's preferable the rules be as complete as possible, making situations you can't reference them to resolve a course of action rare. If that does occur, the GM will ultimately have to adjudicate, extrapolating from the most similar set of existing rules, but the design task is to cover as much ground as possible.That being said, that's a bit of a swerve; it's not really a matter of interpretation that 3e has significantly more detailed skill rules than 5e, and that they're very different in orientation. You apply them to things the DM has described to get the relevant DC out, picking from a set of actions you can leverage against the world for fixed result. 5e skill rules are all about the DM determining a sense of internal relative difficulty, and then narrating a result of whatever magnitude the DM determines is appropriate.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pedantic, post: 9581955, member: 6690965"] I think you may have confused me with someone else. My stance has always been that it's preferable the rules be as complete as possible, making situations you can't reference them to resolve a course of action rare. If that does occur, the GM will ultimately have to adjudicate, extrapolating from the most similar set of existing rules, but the design task is to cover as much ground as possible. That being said, that's a bit of a swerve; it's not really a matter of interpretation that 3e has significantly more detailed skill rules than 5e, and that they're very different in orientation. You apply them to things the DM has described to get the relevant DC out, picking from a set of actions you can leverage against the world for fixed result. 5e skill rules are all about the DM determining a sense of internal relative difficulty, and then narrating a result of whatever magnitude the DM determines is appropriate. [/QUOTE]

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