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<blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 3767535" data-attributes="member: 40961">Blackmoria- there are games where not knowing the rules is part of the point.&nbsp; Games like Paranoia work well under this system.&nbsp; &quot;Knowledge of the rules is treason.&quot;&nbsp; But that game functions well under that system because part of its fun is that its setting is based on the idea that the characters themselves are stuck in a system of arbitrary rules they don't understand, forced to do tasks that don't make sense, and executed (and recloned back to life) every time they mess up.&nbsp; Plus, knowing what you can and cannot do is pretty simple in Paranoia.&nbsp; If you have a laser, you can shoot somebody with it.&nbsp; If you have a grenade, you can throw it at somebody.&nbsp; Etc.&nbsp; The unintended consequences due to lack of knowledge are part of the fun.&nbsp; Ie, I shoot at my teammate with my laser because (I loudly proclaim that) he's a dirty commie traitor.&nbsp; But his experimental reflective armor makes my laser bounce off.&nbsp; He starts shooting back at me, calling ME a dirty commie traitor!&nbsp; How unfair!&nbsp; But I've also got experimental reflective armor.&nbsp; If only we'd known the rules for how the experimental armor works!&nbsp; The flurry of bouncing lasers ricochet around the room in a hail of light, as we each hope for a lucky hit, and an incredibly valuable McGuffin is destroyed.&nbsp; A heavily armed robo-destroyer-droid arrives to give us happy-making narcotics, counsel us on our unreasonably destructive and violent tendencies, and then once we are reformed, cured, and &quot;sane,&quot; to shoot us in the head with HIS laser.&nbsp; But in the meantime I've pulled the pin on my experimental nuclear grenade...&nbsp; Its all good fun.But I don't think it would work for D&amp;D.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cadfan, post: 3767535, member: 40961"] Blackmoria- there are games where not knowing the rules is part of the point. Games like Paranoia work well under this system. "Knowledge of the rules is treason." But that game functions well under that system because part of its fun is that its setting is based on the idea that the characters themselves are stuck in a system of arbitrary rules they don't understand, forced to do tasks that don't make sense, and executed (and recloned back to life) every time they mess up. Plus, knowing what you can and cannot do is pretty simple in Paranoia. If you have a laser, you can shoot somebody with it. If you have a grenade, you can throw it at somebody. Etc. The unintended consequences due to lack of knowledge are part of the fun. Ie, I shoot at my teammate with my laser because (I loudly proclaim that) he's a dirty commie traitor. But his experimental reflective armor makes my laser bounce off. He starts shooting back at me, calling ME a dirty commie traitor! How unfair! But I've also got experimental reflective armor. If only we'd known the rules for how the experimental armor works! The flurry of bouncing lasers ricochet around the room in a hail of light, as we each hope for a lucky hit, and an incredibly valuable McGuffin is destroyed. A heavily armed robo-destroyer-droid arrives to give us happy-making narcotics, counsel us on our unreasonably destructive and violent tendencies, and then once we are reformed, cured, and "sane," to shoot us in the head with HIS laser. But in the meantime I've pulled the pin on my experimental nuclear grenade... Its all good fun. But I don't think it would work for D&D. [/QUOTE]

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