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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8993429" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>Well, at this point I kind of have to pull back a bit in the sense that COMMON USAGE does exist. I think its safe to say that even if you just read 5e cold you WOULD assume that all this stuff has a point and you'd be expected to use a lot of it. Its more of a question of how, why, and when? Clearly step 2 of the loop (resolve a character action) is where this kind of stuff would appear, and presumably any reasonable person would assume that there's a separate mode of play, which is combat, even though the core of the rules doesn't actually tell us this. At that level, I'm not sure anything about this core rule's vagueness actually makes any of the other parts of the game 'more optional' than they mostly seem to be anyway. Anyway, 5e is also not too good about saying &quot;this is optional&quot;. 2e actually was pretty good about that, but then 2e was kind of a mess overall...</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 8993429, member: 82106"] Well, at this point I kind of have to pull back a bit in the sense that COMMON USAGE does exist. I think its safe to say that even if you just read 5e cold you WOULD assume that all this stuff has a point and you'd be expected to use a lot of it. Its more of a question of how, why, and when? Clearly step 2 of the loop (resolve a character action) is where this kind of stuff would appear, and presumably any reasonable person would assume that there's a separate mode of play, which is combat, even though the core of the rules doesn't actually tell us this. At that level, I'm not sure anything about this core rule's vagueness actually makes any of the other parts of the game 'more optional' than they mostly seem to be anyway. Anyway, 5e is also not too good about saying "this is optional". 2e actually was pretty good about that, but then 2e was kind of a mess overall... [/QUOTE]

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