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<blockquote data-quote="GMMichael" data-source="post: 9401940" data-attributes="member: 6685730">It's good to see the example GM calling for checks, sheet-unseen, and making judgment calls.&nbsp; Does having specific, trained-only uses in the book send players/GMs to the book more often than not?&nbsp; I can feel that itch in the back of my mind: &quot;what if this particular usage is a special instance in the book?&nbsp; I should stop the game and look it up.&quot;&nbsp; Does being untrained in a task mean that there's no other way to accomplish a particular trained-only-task?&nbsp; That would seem oppressive, if so.I hope this is a weird example, because it doesn't sound like it needs a roll!&nbsp; (But it does need a pie.)Ah, GM oppression at work.&nbsp; A player just has to look at the character sheet and starts self-limiting.&nbsp; Okay, that's the dark side of &quot;mechanical cueing,&quot; but it's there.&nbsp; If a game is focused on specific tasks and rules, then by all means cue the player to use them.&nbsp; My expectation is that the typical RPG offers more of a do-what-you-want playstyle, even if that's not what results from the rules, so a character sheet that (overly) cues the PC seems to contradict that offer.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GMMichael, post: 9401940, member: 6685730"] It's good to see the example GM calling for checks, sheet-unseen, and making judgment calls. Does having specific, trained-only uses in the book send players/GMs to the book more often than not? I can feel that itch in the back of my mind: "what if this particular usage is a special instance in the book? I should stop the game and look it up." Does being untrained in a task mean that there's no other way to accomplish a particular trained-only-task? That would seem oppressive, if so. I hope this is a weird example, because it doesn't sound like it needs a roll! (But it does need a pie.) Ah, GM oppression at work. A player just has to look at the character sheet and starts self-limiting. Okay, that's the dark side of "mechanical cueing," but it's there. If a game is focused on specific tasks and rules, then by all means cue the player to use them. My expectation is that the typical RPG offers more of a do-what-you-want playstyle, even if that's not what results from the rules, so a character sheet that (overly) cues the PC seems to contradict that offer. [/QUOTE]

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