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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6297072" data-attributes="member: 42582">Although I would like to see some sort of mechanic built around these ideals, bonds and flaws, I think Ratskinner is right to see a potential dissimilarity between Fate (or in my case Marvel Heroic RP, which is the system I know better and use as my mental proxy for Fate) and D&D, and to worry that this could put pressure on any such mechanics.It is not fair to say that such pressure is simply the fault of the GM. In D&D it is hard, for instance, to "soak" as many points in non-combat resolution as combat resolution, simply because the latter involves so many dice rolls. Whereas if you look at systems that use Fate-style mechanics (or other forms of personality mechanics, like the augments in HeroWars/Quest), they are much more uniform across combat/non-combat, and hence there is no general optimisation strategy based on gaming the combat/non-combat divide.This is why I am also hoping that D&Dnext will include some sort of skill challenge mechanic to help reduce that mechanical divide (even though it probably won't fully eliminate it)!I don't see why having a system that allowed them to have mechanical weight would be forcing anything on anyone. Who is being forced to use it?Why not? If you don't want to use personality mechanics, don't use them.A system of the sort being discussed wouldn't be cross-contaminating other features of action resolution. It would sit on top of them (or next to them - choose your preferred metaphor).</blockquote>

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