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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jester47" data-source="post: 1045880" data-attributes="member: 2238">Emiricol- I do not require them to come up with a backstory, but I do award expereince to those that do.  So I encourage it.  I think stats can go a long way in delivering gritty, but the DM also has to be involved.  The definition Josh posted is a good starting point.  With the method I described you get characters who have a better array of realism.  By this I mean that some might be ineffective for thier class (however I have seen some good players work around this to a stunning degree), others will be born for it, some should die but for some reason don't.  So with my 3 declarations and 4d6 in order rolls, you get realistic.  Adding Tough an Uncompromising is fairly easy when your characters are rolled this way.  But pretty much this is left up to the DM to implement and make real.  Like I said before, I do not think it is the dice mechanic here, but holding the players to the rolls they make.  Doing so breaks the subconscious tendency to try and make a character that is fiarly covered. The Uncertainty factor-I believe that to have a truely exciting game there has to be a certain amount of uncertainty of success.  I think this is what people are looking for when they look for "grit."  Tough and uncompromising reality(in a versimilodic sense) has an excitement to it of a certain kind.  Simply put, the more uncertain, the more real.However there is a line between too much and too little.  I try to get the characters as close to that line as possible.  Make the characters too weak and its no fun.  Make the characters too strong and again it becomes no fun.  Let a character be more tailored and you loose uncertainty, let a character be too random and you have too much.balanced uncertainty = grit, and this is in the hands of the DM.  There are a lot of ways to get close with stat rolling schemes, setting flavor, or what not.  But it still comes down to the DM giving enough uncertainty that success means somthing.  The more uncertainty the prouder the players are of the success.   Too uncertain and the game  becomes impossible and thus monotonous.  To certain and the players don't really appreciate anything in the game because its too easy.Sidebar- This is another reason why I play to what Monte called "the status quo."  This allows for a certain ammount of uncertainty.   Characters can make mistakes and take on somthing too big too soon, or just the opposite.  They can never really be to sure what level of a situation they are walking into.Thats all I have to say about that...Aaron.</blockquote>

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