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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9675344" data-attributes="member: 6790260">It's not &quot;constrained to their PCs&quot; that I'm talking about here.It's tons upon tons of hard rules about what players emphatically are not permitted to do--hard restrictions all over the place. You can't attempt things you don't have training for. You can't get training except in XYZ ways. You can't have a species other than the species options hard-coded into the world by the GM. You can't have a class the GM doesn't feel like permitting. You can't have a background (in both the formal and the casual sense) unless it gets meticulously approved by the GM. You can't have--as someone once asked me, when trying to put together a character for 5e--someone who is very wise, but really bad at observing their surroundings. (She was trying to model her now-husband, who can be deeply oblivious about things right in front of his face, but who is a practicing psychiatrist that really does do a very good job at helping his patients understand what complications they're dealing with.)Players need to be constantly constrained lest they do something Unacceptable. But GMs? Oh, no no no. GMs can never be limited. That would be the worst thing ever.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9675344, member: 6790260"] It's not "constrained to their PCs" that I'm talking about here. It's tons upon tons of hard rules about what players emphatically are not permitted to do--hard restrictions all over the place. You can't attempt things you don't have training for. You can't get training except in XYZ ways. You can't have a species other than the species options hard-coded into the world by the GM. You can't have a class the GM doesn't feel like permitting. You can't have a background (in both the formal and the casual sense) unless it gets meticulously approved by the GM. You can't have--as someone once asked me, when trying to put together a character for 5e--someone who is very wise, but really bad at observing their surroundings. (She was trying to model her now-husband, who can be [I]deeply[/I] oblivious about things right in front of his face, but who is a practicing psychiatrist that really does do a very good job at helping his patients understand what complications they're dealing with.) [I]Players[/I] need to be constantly constrained lest they do something Unacceptable. But GMs? Oh, no no no. GMs can never be [I]limited[/I]. That would be the worst thing ever. [/QUOTE]

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