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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9481996" data-attributes="member: 93670">Effective use of light & dark in a video game takes more than slapping a mod on it.  You might have more experience with skyrim than I do, but I don't recall even once being able to say "Hey GM, can I try to...." & then describe some completely made up interaction with the world in what little I've played.  Video games are a poor comparison for things like the value of light & dark in TTRPGs unless you want to start talking about playing TTRPGs like a video game.  Don't forget that when you start expecting TTRPGs to start being played like a video game you also add the expectation for the meat computer behind the GM screen to start designing & testing adventures like video games[spoiler][MEDIA=youtube]BQ3iqq49Ew8[/MEDIA]Next session will be in a few years & it's going to cost a few tens of millions for the GM team to build/test it.  Don't forget where we left off [/spoiler]No not really.  It literally has no effect on the players once they decide that taking a rest is more important than avoiding whatever consequence the GM might be dangling. At that point it plays out like this:[spoiler="I'm partial to the bit where the GM begs his players"][MEDIA=youtube]_Dz65h6H5gM[/MEDIA][/spoiler]</blockquote>