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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8920937" data-attributes="member: 29398">And lets' not forget the intent of why that bit is in the 1e DMG: it's not there to stifle creativity per se, but to remind the DM to push back against players exploiting holes in the rules to undue advantage...which in a way means that in a very un-Gygaxian way Gygax was tacitly admitting his rules weren't perfect.At least that's how I read it, anyway. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Indeed.There are some to whom any sniff of having to "ask the DM" is anathema.  I don't understand this line of thought myself - in the end the DM is the final arbiter of what's impossible-possible-probable-certain in the setting, so why not ask first - but it's out there.Yes, or at the very least a consistent DM.I've found 1e to be more than flexible enough - a player says what a character is trying to do and if there's a rule that handles it then the rule applies, and if there isn't a rule then I quickly determine where the proposed action falls on the impossible <--> certain spectrum and if necessary get the player to roll a die.</blockquote>