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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1848606" data-attributes="member: 812">eyebeams, it seems like you're saying, "Regardless of whether or not d20 is easy to wing, it rewards players for rules mastery."I haven't really addressed the "rewards players for rules mastery" issue, I guess. To me that's much more a function of the way the game is run. As you noted, my rulings on Bull Rush would disincentive a player to invest a lot of energy in rules mastery since they wouldn't get rewarded. And indeed, my players for the most part don't seem inclined towards acquiring mastery of the rules. Most of them don't own Player's Handbooks, for example. So if you play d20 games with ME, it's not rewarding you (or at least not very clearly/strongly) for rules mastery.So I don't know as I think that the SYSTEM is the most important factor in "rewarding rules mastery"And I don't know that it's true that d20 does so in any case. In some aspects (the tight relation of components such as feats and combat actions and so on) it certainly does, but in others (the encouragement to DMs to wing it that I've noted) it seems not to do so.These things are rarely black and white.</blockquote>