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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5862963" data-attributes="member: 42582">Agreed.The question is, will this be good advice or not? If there are no marking mechanics, then how does the fighter get the monsters to direct their attacks against him/her? If the answer is &quot;by engaging them&quot;, does that imply that the game is going back to a norm of non-mobility rather than mobility? If the answer is &quot;via free roleplay between player and GM&quot;, what does that say about the role of the GM in the game? And will all classes be reliant on the GM in the same way?Similar issues arise for your bard. Will there be social conflict resolution mechanics for the player of the bard to take advantage of? If not, does the player of the bard have to engage in free roleplaying to make anything happen?I see this relating back to TwinBahamut's points - advice without mechanics to support it is pointless, and if free roleplaying is to be a major part of the action resolution mechanics, then the rulebooks would want to have a pretty good discussion of how it is meant to work!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 5862963, member: 42582"] Agreed. The question is, will this be good advice or not? If there are no marking mechanics, then how does the fighter get the monsters to direct their attacks against him/her? If the answer is "by engaging them", does that imply that the game is going back to a norm of non-mobility rather than mobility? If the answer is "via free roleplay between player and GM", what does that say about the role of the GM in the game? And will all classes be reliant on the GM in the same way? Similar issues arise for your bard. Will there be social conflict resolution mechanics for the player of the bard to take advantage of? If not, does the player of the bard have to engage in free roleplaying to make anything happen? I see this relating back to TwinBahamut's points - advice without mechanics to support it is pointless, and if free roleplaying is to be a major part of the action resolution mechanics, then the rulebooks would want to have a pretty good discussion of how it is meant to work! [/QUOTE]

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