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<blockquote data-quote="John Quixote" data-source="post: 8155611" data-attributes="member: 694">Put me down solidly in the &quot;skilled play&quot; camp.I was having this discussion elsewhere not too long ago, and I think I can make my feelings on the matter clear enough by simply quoting myself.This isn't to say that improv acting can't be fun—if the players are actually good at it. But it's far likelier IME to be a source of pure cringe. And that's not even scratching the surface of the infamous &quot;BuT iT's WhAt My ChArAcTeR wOuLd Do!&quot; problem.The thing is, even though I'm firmly on the &quot;skilled play&quot; side of the continuum, I don't have a problem with dice at all. I play OD&amp;D, but I don't buy into the whole OSR, &quot;rulings-not-rules&quot; thing or the idea that skilled play (in the sense of searching for traps with 10' poles and finding secret doors by knocking on walls) means that there isn't also a place in the game for skill checks. After all, even in Basic/Expert D&amp;D, you find a trap or a secret door by rolling a 1 or 2 on 1d6.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Quixote, post: 8155611, member: 694"] Put me down solidly in the "skilled play" camp. I was having this discussion elsewhere not too long ago, and I think I can make my feelings on the matter clear enough by simply quoting myself. This isn't to say that improv acting can't be [i]fun[/i]—if the players are actually good at it. But it's far likelier IME to be a source of pure cringe. And that's not even scratching the surface of the infamous "BuT iT's WhAt My ChArAcTeR wOuLd Do!" problem. The thing is, even though I'm firmly on the "skilled play" side of the continuum, I don't have a problem with dice at all. I play OD&D, but I don't buy into the whole OSR, "rulings-not-rules" thing or the idea that skilled play (in the sense of searching for traps with 10' poles and finding secret doors by knocking on walls) means that there isn't also a place in the game for skill checks. After all, even in Basic/Expert D&D, you find a trap or a secret door by rolling a 1 or 2 on 1d6. [/QUOTE]

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