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<blockquote data-quote="Lylandra" data-source="post: 7636054" data-attributes="member: 6816692">Ah, I understand where you're coming from. So your proposed mechanic is kind of meta-educational to point a finger at the sometimes not so obvious power imbalance between DM and players. That being said, I think discussing &quot;just RP it&quot; as a commonly used method in the DM guide would be a good idea. Because I don't think that most DMs (or players) will be aware of the problem. And D&amp;D isn't the worst offender here. It is much more complicated once you play modern or sci-fi because then even the skills you're using might actually be part of someone's job. Again, pretty anecdotal as I once played in a SF game where this was a major problem: I've got a teacher's degree in chemistry and physics and two of our players were IT guys. I was playing a scientist character while one of the IT guys was playing a mechanic/computing specialist. And our GM (who was a linguist) just used the most common (but rather incorrect) tropes in his adventures. We couldn't really blame him, because how should he know that &quot;hacking doesn't work that way&quot; or that a &quot;star isn't just naturally green&quot;. So we decided to just roll the dice instead.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lylandra, post: 7636054, member: 6816692"] Ah, I understand where you're coming from. So your proposed mechanic is kind of meta-educational to point a finger at the sometimes not so obvious power imbalance between DM and players. That being said, I think discussing "just RP it" as a commonly used method in the DM guide would be a good idea. Because I don't think that most DMs (or players) will be aware of the problem. And D&D isn't the worst offender here. It is much more complicated once you play modern or sci-fi because then even the skills you're using might actually be part of someone's job. Again, pretty anecdotal as I once played in a SF game where this was a major problem: I've got a teacher's degree in chemistry and physics and two of our players were IT guys. I was playing a scientist character while one of the IT guys was playing a mechanic/computing specialist. And our GM (who was a linguist) just used the most common (but rather incorrect) tropes in his adventures. We couldn't really blame him, because how should he know that "hacking doesn't work that way" or that a "star isn't just naturally green". So we decided to just roll the dice instead. [/QUOTE]

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