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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ThirdWizard" data-source="post: 2244242" data-attributes="member: 12037">I think its fairly obvious by now that I really hate that saying. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I was like this in 2E. ^^; I was the guy that made a 2 weapon fighter and pointed out that Dex mitigated the penalty to wielding two weapons and such. Ahh 2E...Of course, I wouldn't ever say that that was normal (or that I am for that matter). <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />It really does cover a lot. Many many times when someone thinks something isn't covered in the rules, it actually is. Not always, oh definately not always. There are no rules for pulling rugs out from under people, for example, that I'm aware of. At the same time, thoug, if someone replies to me that there are in this little hidden section of the DMG, I won't be surprised that it exists. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />My games are probably less free-form than yours, though. I would say 3E doesn't encourage free-form activities because it is often difficult to pull them off. It isn't an extremely "cinematic" game, because as soon as you try to go too far out of bound (swinging from chandeliers, pulling rugs out from people, etc) these things are very difficult to succeed at or involve multiple rolls of different skills/abilities.The system has definately gotten good, but this also has to do with the fact that when you start considering science things get really wonky, so you just suspend your disbelief and move on. One of my favorite examples of this is firing bows in the rain and leaving them strung at all times. It's not something that works in real life, but its IMO best to just hand-wave this away. Since the rules don't say you can't do these things, it is best left as is for the sake of gameplay.Most people here are probably fortunate, as we're still playing, and in fact thinking about role playing a lot as we come to these forums. Oh, yes, we have different theories and ideas about how the game should be played out. And, we can get testy about our own little soap-boxes and philosophies occasionally. But, we all love it or we wouldn't be here. I think that should be noted in this thread.</blockquote>

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