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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Balesir" data-source="post: 6112530" data-attributes="member: 27160">The leap is from "I don't really like that idea - it sounds <confusing or whatever>" to "I would really have preferred something more like this, for example". If you like what's being suggested, good for you, but "I would rather have seen something like this..." seems a perfectly logical and expected response from someone who doesn't.This has actually already been done for 4e far more cogently than it ever has for 3.x or earlier, but to add to all the stuff Jester and others have mentioned, for me a very large part is this:The players have actual agency and knowledge of likely outcomes under the rules. I, as DM, get to decide what the situation is the characters face, but I don't get to decide how they may (or may not) resolve it; that is down to the decisions of the players and the rolls of the dice. I find that infinitely more satisfying than thinking "do I let them succeed with this funky plan or not?"The end result is we get situations where nobody knows where they are going to go, because the outcome will be a genuine fusion of the decisions of all the folk in the group, not just how the DM thinks it "should" work. Both as a player and as a GM, I find that liberating and refreshing.I realise not everyone feels this way; good luck to them with whatever game suits their fancy, but this is what I find I want and I'll not apologise for it (although I may well compromise on it from time to time, when playing with people who like something different).</blockquote>

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