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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Xamnam" data-source="post: 9810134" data-attributes="member: 7037765">I'm sorry the last sentence hit poorly. I want to be clear, I'm only trying to speak for myself. Put another way, I don't want a player to have a bad time just because they have not grokked my style. I get that I can't eliminate the possibility, but a priority of mine is to minimize the chance.I fully agree with all the bolded! I'm not asking for rules to cover every scenario! My concern is actually specifically about GM's who are not open to the different approaches a player might bring. It's one thing to think about a presented plan, and decide it's unlikely to succeed. What I'm trying to be wary of is the (potentially unconscious!) line of thinking: "Well, that's not how I would solve it." and making things harder for them as a result.I'm not asking for rules to protect the players from bad GMs. The way I see it, as much as they are constraints on what the players can do, rules of systems also give players certain levers with which to interact with the world. I want that knowledge to be as effective as a player is expecting said levers to be. In a system that does give the character skills, I don't want to undercut the system.  And because I can't put my players fully inside my head, and know that they see and understand everything I'm picturing, that's why I tend towards systems that give the character skills to help close that gap.</blockquote>