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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 5676863" data-attributes="member: 52734">Hey, I don't like to think of it as "Bad Theater Hour" around my house - it's better than some stuff I watch on TV (especially SyFy, but that's a whole 'nother ball of wax). <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 probably come at RPGs from an odd angle because for about 2 years when I initially got the D&D game, because of various things, I and my friends did play it exclusively as pure "make-believe" - with no dice.  Some of the best times I had with D&D.  At the same time, I don't think I'd trust myself to go back to those days of pure fiat.I know that you are mainly aiming at having "laws" in place for doing things, but sometimes I wonder if D&D isn't too married to a fondness for dice and "rolling for it".  For the most part, dice are there to determine whether something passes or fails.  It's one way of determining outcome, but certainly not the only, or best one*.  They have the advantage that they are impartial, but that's also a downfall - over the years I've seen many an occasion where bad dice rolls are worse than recticent DM's.  Something great story-wise actions got shot down because the dice simply wouldn't cooperate.  Overall I'd rather see a system that marries narrative control and impartial resolution that allows the players (and DM) some leeway in task resolution.  For most stuff, impartial resolution creates tension, but there needs to be a way to occasionally overrule the impartial system for elements that drive the story forward.Likewise, for whatever reason, shortly after getting my 1st D&D set, I lost the rulebook and only had B2 - Keep on the Borderlands, for reference.  There's some lengthy DMing notes in that module, of the breadth and depth you probably wouldn't see in modules these days.  For a while, as I indicated above, it was the only interface I had into the D&D game and it did have quite an influence on my own module design for many years afterward (for example, who these days includes women and children in their goblin lairs these days, for one?  Those design choices provided some tough choices when going raiding back in the day.)* Others might include using a hand of cards or even a push-pull story system (i.e., what story complications are you willing to risk for succeeding in your actions).</blockquote>

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