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<blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8871174" data-attributes="member: 6988941"><p>Players get to decide what their character's clothes look like. I'd rather let a few possibly convenient retcons slide than make everyone write out their outfits in detail and spend game time discussing day to day fashion choices, unless that's what the players want to focus on. Even many of the players who want to get into describing their characters sartorial choices probably generally don't want to do it in the form of some sort of arms race with the DM.</p><p></p><p>If a player seemed inclined to <em>regularly</em> abuse their aesthetic authority over their character to gain minor benefits I probably wouldn't play with them. But if extraneous factors led to me playing with someone who needed to be kept on such a short leash, I'd probably still let decisions about gloves slide, because I'd probably be babysitting that player more than enough on myriad other things that were more important and more the DM's business than how their character dresses.</p><p></p><p>Of course if a given table enjoys the player-DM arms race and battle of planning involved in penalizing people for not thinking of every mundane equipment contigency, declaring what they'll do about it and writing it on their character sheet, then by all means punish people for not writing down that they have gloves. It's a valid type of play, and I see the appeal. Being able to tell the DM "no, I'm wearing gloves, it's on my character sheet" in this sort of situation is doubtlessly very satisfying. I just find the amount of overhead in discussing and documenting trivial logistical choices is too high of a price to pay for most people.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Benjamin Olson, post: 8871174, member: 6988941"] Players get to decide what their character's clothes look like. I'd rather let a few possibly convenient retcons slide than make everyone write out their outfits in detail and spend game time discussing day to day fashion choices, unless that's what the players want to focus on. Even many of the players who want to get into describing their characters sartorial choices probably generally don't want to do it in the form of some sort of arms race with the DM. If a player seemed inclined to [I]regularly[/I] abuse their aesthetic authority over their character to gain minor benefits I probably wouldn't play with them. But if extraneous factors led to me playing with someone who needed to be kept on such a short leash, I'd probably still let decisions about gloves slide, because I'd probably be babysitting that player more than enough on myriad other things that were more important and more the DM's business than how their character dresses. Of course if a given table enjoys the player-DM arms race and battle of planning involved in penalizing people for not thinking of every mundane equipment contigency, declaring what they'll do about it and writing it on their character sheet, then by all means punish people for not writing down that they have gloves. It's a valid type of play, and I see the appeal. Being able to tell the DM "no, I'm wearing gloves, it's on my character sheet" in this sort of situation is doubtlessly very satisfying. I just find the amount of overhead in discussing and documenting trivial logistical choices is too high of a price to pay for most people. [/QUOTE]
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