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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 696772" data-attributes="member: 259">With the Roc example, it's a good point that I shouldn't have let her describe the outcome.  On the other hand, when a player tells me that they want to do something bizarre (throw a lasso at a roc), I often ask them what they're hoping to accomplish:  sometimes, it turns out that they're visualizing the scene very differently from how I am, and once I clarify ("Uh, no, looking at that roc, you know there's no way you're going to lasso it and pull it to the ground; it's bigger than a city block"), they can re-think their action.  And if they do decide to go through with whatever they're intending, if I know what they're trying to accomplish, I can give them feedback as the action progresses that helps them evaluate their goal.Dunno if that made any sense.On a different note, our group has a bad habit of being ubercareful.  I ran a published adventure at DragonCon last year as a pickup game, however, and one player's reckless PC provided a revelatory experience for me.  He didn't think before acting; he was fearless; he was stupid.And it was incredibly fun.  He stumbled into every trap in the module, initiated some great comic-relief desperate-scramble-away-from-danger scenes, and kept everyone on their toes.  His character, in fact, was the best thing about the Con for me.I've been trying to bring some of that gung-ho-stupidity into my current games, to liven things up.  It works pretty well.Daniel</blockquote>

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