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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 7649604" data-attributes="member: 177">I'll chalk this up to a difference of opinions on connotations, then.  I agree that "charade" has negative connotations.  However, given that mime isn't generally viewed as a particularly grand art form (reference: Opus the Penguin beating mimes with an olive loaf), I submit that pantomime ain't all that much better.Given that pantomime is a performance form in which movement is exaggerated and unrealistic, I kind of thought the falseness was implied.  And, I submit that if you are generating it, then it is kind of false.  The players should be generating it in themselves.  If I have a consistent XP awarding scheme, the players can rather easily see how this works out to register their achievement.  I don't generate it - they figure it out on their own.  Note that I merely need to be consistent, not objective.Agreed.  Your word choice led me to think that you also had that assumption.  My apologies.Mind you, I also think you and others are confusing objectivity with consistency, as noted above.  Objectivity is required to compare one campaign to another.  To compare my success today with my success in the same campaign last week, I merely need consistency.</blockquote>