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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bauglir" data-source="post: 1393438" data-attributes="member: 6982">Agreed 100%.If I'm playing a character in a game, it's the rules that let me know what I can or can't do.  The alternative is an inconsistent mess where the NPCs can do a lot more than the PCs in the world, just because they happen to be controlled by the only person present who knows clearly exactly what's possible..For example, in a 3.5e game, I encounter a 10' wide pit.  Iirc the DC of a running jump in 3.5e is the distance, so DC 10.  I have no ranks in the jump skill, but I have a str of 16.  I need to roll a 7 or better to make that jump.  In character I eyeball the pit, and estimate that I could probably make that jump, but it might be close..  I might decide to cross it some other way, or I might risk it, depending on what kind of person my character is, but the important thing there is I have the information I need to make that kind of decision.  Without those rules I wouldn't have the faintest notion how likely I would be to make that jump (and further it might be more difficult or less difficult depending on the dm's mood that day..)Common Sense is very subjective, making it IMO a poor substitute for a good base of rules to support a game.</blockquote>