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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6859314" data-attributes="member: 42582">For me, it's a combination of doubt about the DC and a relative paucity of player resources.From your posts that I have read on these boards, you are probably at the more generous end in awarding inspiration (which is the generic player resource for checks in 5e) and the most &quot;indie&quot;-like in establishing clear stakes and DCs for resolution. When I talk about &quot;drifting&quot; 5e in a 4e-ish (or DW-ish, etc) direction that is the sort of thing I have in mind (both in the abstract, and your posts in particular). I'm not meaning at all to be derisive in calling it &quot;drifting&quot; and hope I'm not taken in that way - it's just that based on the posts I read yours is one fairly distinctive way of playing 5e and I think maybe less common or &quot;mainstream&quot; then the more 2nd ed AD&amp;D approach which I think I would see as the default (to the extent that there is a default).I don't know [MENTION=59096]thecasualoblivion[/MENTION] outside the context of these boards, but I think an approach to 5e that combined your style with that of [MENTION=5834]Celtavian[/MENTION] might well allay many of the concerns expressed in the OP. (I don't think positing that combination is quite calling for a mixing of oil and water.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 6859314, member: 42582"] For me, it's a combination of doubt about the DC and a relative paucity of player resources. From your posts that I have read on these boards, you are probably at the more generous end in awarding inspiration (which is the generic player resource for checks in 5e) and the most "indie"-like in establishing clear stakes and DCs for resolution. When I talk about "drifting" 5e in a 4e-ish (or DW-ish, etc) direction that is the sort of thing I have in mind (both in the abstract, and your posts in particular). I'm not meaning at all to be derisive in calling it "drifting" and hope I'm not taken in that way - it's just that based on the posts I read yours is one fairly distinctive way of playing 5e and I think maybe less common or "mainstream" then the more 2nd ed AD&D approach which I think I would see as the default (to the extent that there is a default). I don't know [MENTION=59096]thecasualoblivion[/MENTION] outside the context of these boards, but I think an approach to 5e that combined your style with that of [MENTION=5834]Celtavian[/MENTION] might well allay many of the concerns expressed in the OP. (I don't [I]think[/I] positing that combination is quite calling for a mixing of oil and water.) [/QUOTE]

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