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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mythmere1" data-source="post: 2044009" data-attributes="member: 26563">I haven't seen Silhouette Core, so I don't have the point of comparison.  Since you're referring to "mechanical" character customization, you clearly picked up on the distinction I was making - is there an example other than Silhouette Core, or could you give more detail on what you mean?  I meant only to point out what C&C players mean when we say that C&C permits specialization equivalent to D&D, since that appears on the face of it to be ridiculous - but there's an assumed level and (more importantly) nature to refereeing inherent in the C&C player's answer.  I don't mean the DMing is better or worse - just more ad hoc and interactive than consistent and reference-based.  In terms of how much work it is, I answer that below.First, I'm not talking about an ad hoc ruling on every attack.  Just in the situations when a character's particular, specialized persona comes into play (eg, "I'm a swashbuckling fighter").It's not planned in advance - it comes from talk at the table, almost always.  I suppose it is more work in terms of having to make a decision about what a modifier will be; since I've never been able to remember all the 3E modifiers, for me it's a choice between spending a few moments talking to a player about what his character can do vs spending a few moments looking it up.  I prefer dialogue to the riffling of pages, and find it fun and a good addition to the game.  A DM with extraordinary memory could certainly be quicker with a memorized answer from the 3E books, but in my experience players like to check these rules even after the ruling, just to be sure.  This leads to much more page-riffling when I'd prefer to hear conversation.  It's not that players ask if they can do something - it's that they want to know how it will be adjudicated.  I prefer to have non-standard actions determined by discussion about the character and the situation than by a prolongued session of looking through rules and comparing different possibilities.I never said it couldn't be houseruled.  I said C&C is designed to be easy to houserule, and that houseruling 3E requires making changes across the board to account for other changes, because the system is so intertwined.Also, I'm talking about D&D, not d20.  D&D does not encompass these other games.  D&D is far more intertwined than d20, because it contains game-specific rules that also tie in with the whole, creating wider ramifications for a single alteration than one would have in d20 or in C&C.</blockquote>

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