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Message: <blockquote data-quote="iserith" data-source="post: 7789922" data-attributes="member: 97077">Every campaign is "roleplaying-focused" since players are playing roles by determining what their characters think, do, and say. The assertion that the steed "wouldn't" do this or that really strikes me as an excuse by the DM to jump in and play the character (or in this case, the character's resource) for the player whenever the DM doesn't like the player's choice. Because D&D shares elements with childhood games of make-believe, for every reason a DM can think of that the steed wouldn't jump into a pit of carrion crawlers, a player can think of a reason why it might. Provided that choice is contributing to the group's ability to achieve the goals of play - that is, everyone having a good time and creating an exciting, memorable story - then whatever reason underpinning it is fine.If a DM doesn't like a player's choice because perhaps it isn't fun for everyone and/or isn't helping to create an exciting, memorable story, that is deserving of a side discussion in my view to get on the same page rather than the creation of a backdoor to negating the player's choice in the first place.</blockquote>