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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8993646" data-attributes="member: 6801845">I agree.&nbsp; Part of the reason I like D&amp;D is that, for lack of a better way of putting it, gets out of the way in order for us to generate the ongoing narrative.&nbsp; Part of that is while D&amp;D is in no way a simulation of the real world, it does put the characters into an in-universe perspective with minimal meta-game knowledge by default.&nbsp; The more rules you add that are supposed to be enforced on the DM, the more the focus becomes on the meta-game for me. We saw a bit of that meta-game in 4E with skill challenges with their forced structure.&nbsp; Nowadays I may use a skill challenge structure for my own tracking as a DM, but I'll describe the challenges, setbacks and successes to the players from a PC perspective.&nbsp; There is no announcement of &quot;You need X successes before Y failures using skills A,B and C.&quot;&nbsp; I don't even really care for inspiration (and almost never seen it used in any games) because it has so little in-world justification.I think a lot of that is accomplished by having a D&amp;D style GM.&nbsp; Not only does it smooth over rules details in order to keep the action flowing, the players don't ever have to think of the game from the DM's perspective.&nbsp; Yes, the PCs are constrained by rules in a way that the DM is technically not, but that's just enforcing the in-character perspective.&nbsp; I couldn't effectively perform brain surgery any more than a barbarian can cast fireball.&nbsp; On the other hand the DM is constrained by the social expectations of the group even if they are not constrained by the group.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 8993646, member: 6801845"] I agree. Part of the reason I like D&D is that, for lack of a better way of putting it, gets out of the way in order for us to generate the ongoing narrative. Part of that is while D&D is in no way a simulation of the real world, it does put the characters into an in-universe perspective with minimal meta-game knowledge by default. The more rules you add that are supposed to be enforced on the DM, the more the focus becomes on the meta-game for me. We saw a bit of that meta-game in 4E with skill challenges with their forced structure. Nowadays I may use a skill challenge structure for my own tracking as a DM, but I'll describe the challenges, setbacks and successes to the players from a PC perspective. There is no announcement of "You need X successes before Y failures using skills A,B and C." I don't even really care for inspiration (and almost never seen it used in any games) because it has so little in-world justification. I think a lot of that is accomplished by having a D&D style GM. Not only does it smooth over rules details in order to keep the action flowing, the players don't ever have to think of the game from the DM's perspective. Yes, the PCs are constrained by rules in a way that the DM is technically not, but that's just enforcing the in-character perspective. I couldn't effectively perform brain surgery any more than a barbarian can cast fireball. On the other hand the DM is constrained by the social expectations of the group even if they are not constrained by the group. [/QUOTE]

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