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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DMZ2112" data-source="post: 6161525" data-attributes="member: 78752">Stand back, he's got an analogy:The way I look at this is that the ideal roleplaying game would have the equivalent of a 120-count box of Crayola crayons for conflict resolution -- a shade for every situation.  When faced with the reality that this would quickly become unmanageable, I feel the optimal solution is to not provide crayons at all, rather than only provide an 8-count box of crayons, because no matter how hard you squint at burnt sienna it will never be golden ochre.Now, AD&D1 only gave you a single burnt sienna crayon, and that was almost as good, because everyone /knew/ it wasn't supposed to be golden ochre, and that if you needed golden ochre you were on your own.  With the 8-count box, there's this sense among players of the game that everything needs to be one of those eight colors, and that can be a beast to overcome at the table.I don't consider it a failing of imagination to not want to fight a game's mechanics in the process of setting a scene.  I feel like this stuff is better left to third party materials designed to train up inexperienced dungeon masters, rather than hardwired into a system.You call it scene framing, I call it setting; it's the same thing.  I'm not talking about Dark Sun or Planescape, I'm talking about the immediate circumstances of the encounter.  "Enter a GRAVEDIGGER and the OTHER gravedigger," not "In fair Verona, where we lay our scene."Well, I can't argue.  I find these sorts of rules very disruptive to play. It wasn't really meant as an argument, just an attempt to keep the post on topic.</blockquote>

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