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<blockquote data-quote="SavageRobby" data-source="post: 3739818" data-attributes="member: 51573">You mean like comments about intellectual honesty?It is doublespeak in that the entire SIEGE system, once again (please pay attention) is based off DM adjudication - and that system is designed to cover everything from relatively mundane tasks such as swimming to swinging on a rope to more &quot;feat-like&quot; (to borrow a phrase) tasks like cleaving through an enemy, to maximizing a fireball's damage to whatever the player wants to do. You keep claiming (over and over and over and over) that because it isn't mechanically spelled out in black and white to your satisfaction, that it must house ruled. This is patently untrue. A rules framework is given for the DM to rule on each given situation, according to their discretion. That is far different than adding house rules.In concept, this is no different than the &quot;DM's best friend&quot; modifier of -2 in the 3x DMG (IIRC) - the generic modified that gets applied at the DM's discretion, based on the circumstances. You want to run across a floor covered with banana peels? DM rules a -2 to your roll. That isn't spelled out in black and white in the rules, but the mechanic is present. According to your definition, however, even though one would be using the rule as presented in the rulebook to judge the situation and add the modifier, this would still be considering house ruling since the &quot;-2 for a floor covered with banana peels&quot; isn't in the rulebook. And that is simply nonsense.Perhaps the point you're missing is that C&amp;C isn't the McDonalds of RPGs like 3x is. Not everyone is supposed to have the same shared experience out of the box. It isn't designed like that. Different DMs are going to allow different actions with different difficulties and possibly even different mechanical effects. That isn't due to house ruling. Its due to DM discretion, a concept the game is built around - and one which you seem to want to totally ignore, equating it with house ruling.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SavageRobby, post: 3739818, member: 51573"] You mean like comments about intellectual honesty? It is doublespeak in that the entire SIEGE system, once again (please pay attention) is based off [i]DM adjudication[/i] - and that system is designed to cover everything from relatively mundane tasks such as swimming to swinging on a rope to more "feat-like" (to borrow a phrase) tasks like cleaving through an enemy, to maximizing a fireball's damage to whatever the player wants to do. You keep claiming (over and over and over and over) that because it isn't mechanically spelled out in black and white to your satisfaction, that it must house ruled. This is patently untrue. A rules framework is given for the DM to rule on each given situation, [i]according to their discretion[/i]. That is far different than adding house rules. In concept, this is no different than the "DM's best friend" modifier of -2 in the 3x DMG (IIRC) - the generic modified that gets applied at the [i]DM's discretion[/i], based on the circumstances. You want to run across a floor covered with banana peels? DM rules a -2 to your roll. That isn't spelled out in black and white in the rules, but the mechanic is present. According to your definition, however, even though one would be using the rule [u]as presented[/u] in the rulebook to judge the situation and add the modifier, this would still be considering house ruling since the "-2 for a floor covered with banana peels" isn't in the rulebook. And that is simply nonsense. Perhaps the point you're missing is that C&C isn't the McDonalds of RPGs like 3x is. Not everyone is supposed to have the same shared experience out of the box. It isn't designed like that. Different DMs are going to allow different actions with different difficulties and possibly even different mechanical effects. That isn't due to house ruling. Its due to [i]DM discretion[/i], a concept the game is built around - and one which you seem to want to totally ignore, equating it with house ruling. [/QUOTE]

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