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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ThoughtBubble" data-source="post: 2793331" data-attributes="member: 9723">That was on purpose. I figured that OGL games would be more accessable for comparison. This is a D20 site after all.   <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=":)" />  People who've played games that venture further from D&D probably already know what I'm trying to get at about mechanics supporting a specific type of feel.The majority of DMs I've played with recently are intelligent people who fail at just that task. They're very adept with what's in the rules. However when trying to use things outside of the rules (from personal expierence: character background and motivation, political situations, large orginizations, and mysteries), they tend to falter and stumble. However, I think that if they had mechanics for running those sorts of situations they'd be able to deal with them in better ways. There are some people out here that could really use that mechanic.I think that really ends up depending on the people playing, the people running the game and  what all everyone expects to get out of it. Hm... I think I managed to say exactly nothing there. It's all about the strengths of the people playing. If the group has players who are good at running with what comes up in game, or a DM who is good at hooking the players, you don't need mechanics for it. If you've got characters with good background and a DM who can use it, you don't need mechanics for it. On the other hand, if you've got harder to hook players, or a DM who just doesn't get how to grab them, explicit goals are a wonderful thing.My current group is difficult to get information out of. Sometimes the information exsists, but they don't know how to get it to me. Sometimes they just havn't thought about it very much. But, the funny thing is that if it goes on the character sheet, it will usually get filled out. Unfortunately, I was only able to fool one person by attaching a character questionaire. What I've found is that in games where they're required to specify a bit of the character's personality to get into the game, they specifiy the personality and then use it. For my group of players, more explicit definitions are good.</blockquote>

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