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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 5801387" data-attributes="member: 59082">You might be reading too much into it. "I want to X" and "I do X" are basically the same thing; the difference you seem to be pointing out is that the former can imply that the DM has to figure out if X is possible, whereas the latter implies that the player knows it is possible based upon his or her character sheet.I think the point is that a PC can do whatever they want, whether or not it is on the character sheet or defined by rules. Furthermore, I think he's saying that the core mechanic is the interaction between the player and DM, with the player deciding what he or she wants to do and the DM adjudicating that. The rules are just there to give guidelines and help the process along.</blockquote>