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<blockquote data-quote="Imaculata" data-source="post: 6885168" data-attributes="member: 6801286">The only one who should decide if you get a bonus or penalty, is the DM. Now, a player might ask a DM if he has taken *insert random favorable circumstance* into account. But why should this interfere with the narrative?In my opinion, if you allow mechanics to dominate the game instead of storytelling, it is your own fault. It doesn't really matter if you're playing 1st edition, 2nd edition, 3rd edition, or heck even 4th edition, or 5th edition.And yet I totally disagree with that. If you dislike it when mechanics get in the way of telling a story, and yet allow mechanics to dominate the game, then obviously you are doing something wrong.In a role playing game it doesn't really matter to the storytelling what the rules are. I could be playing a game of Dread (which is played entirely with a tower of Jenga blocks) and have the exact same narrative experience as a game of Call of Cthulhu. I could have just as much narrative fun in a game of 4th edition, as in a game of 5th edition. The rules do not make the narrative. And if you allow the rules to get in the way of the narrative, its not the fault of the rules. The fault is entirely your own.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Imaculata, post: 6885168, member: 6801286"] The only one who should decide if you get a bonus or penalty, is the DM. Now, a player might ask a DM if he has taken [I]*insert random favorable circumstance*[/I] into account. But why should this interfere with the narrative? In my opinion, if you allow mechanics to dominate the game instead of storytelling, it is your own fault. It doesn't really matter if you're playing 1st edition, 2nd edition, 3rd edition, or heck even 4th edition, or 5th edition. And yet I totally disagree with that. If you dislike it when mechanics get in the way of telling a story, and yet allow mechanics to dominate the game, then obviously you are doing something wrong. In a role playing game it doesn't really matter to the storytelling what the rules are. I could be playing a game of [I]Dread[/I] (which is played entirely with a tower of Jenga blocks) and have the exact same narrative experience as a game of Call of Cthulhu. I could have just as much narrative fun in a game of 4th edition, as in a game of 5th edition. The rules do not make the narrative. And if you allow the rules to get in the way of the narrative, its not the fault of the rules. The fault is entirely your own. [/QUOTE]

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