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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JPL" data-source="post: 1580271" data-attributes="member: 1964">Different strokes, man.But it's a continuum.  There are games out there where the PC can do ANYTHING, provided the player describes it in a cool way.  That's not my style.  I don't like to ignore the die rolls altogether.  I just try to encourage attempted coolness.  If the player rolls well, I try to describe it in a visually cool manner.  And if they fail, I try to make that cool, too --- just a dramatic setback from which to come back.Recent example --- 14th level d20 Modern characters.  One is a stuntman.  He sees the bad guys and the hostage through a big plate glass window.  Now, the door was right there.  It was closer.  It was probably unlocked.  But he's a stuntman, and the hostage was his father, and there's this BIG PLATE GLASS WINDOW crying out to him.  And he charged it, and I described the shattering glass and startled baddies in loving detail --- slow motion, really.In my games, a stuntman PC who tries to do something cool and stuntmanny like that is gonna succeed.  High level helps, action points help, but I would've made sure, one way or another, that such a potentially cool moment paid off.  Even if he had rolled a 1 and bounced off the thick glass, I would've had the startled baddie shoot off a clip of armor piercing rounds at  him, weakening it enough so that next round he could crash through --- provided he didn't mind charging right into the baddies' field of fire.That, to me, is cinematic.</blockquote>

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