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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Goken100" data-source="post: 3020058" data-attributes="member: 42968">I have a friend who role plays without any numbers or dice.  That's right, none.  Quite a few people do it.  Each person is responsible for not only deciding their actions, but also collaborating with other players on the likely and desireable outcome that is consistent with their characters.If you have a group that can act in character, run away when they are supposed to, but sit around and trade insults while they ignore a rain of enemy death comically, that's great.  There's no need for ANY points, let along hit points.  But systems like d20 are made for people that try to test themselves against the odds using skills, creativity, and teamwork.  Those folks are not going to just run away because they're supposed to, its consistent with their characters.  If the threat isn't real, they won't run.  And if they don't run, its not cinematic.  It was exciting when Luke convinced Han to try to rescue the princess because it WAS practically suicidal.  If my character tried something like that, I'd expect a very real chance of catching a blaster to the eye.  That's cinematic... well to me anyway.  To each their own. <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=":)" /></blockquote>