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<blockquote data-quote="ThirdWizard" data-source="post: 4193832" data-attributes="member: 12037">Aha! I see. I wasn't thinking along those lines.I think one of the things about this whole thing has been people rethinking how to use skills. There's a middle ground that is great (and we can see them in lots of the examples). But, yes, a true conflict resolution system would be more like...PC: I look around!DM: Why?PC: Maybe I can find an escape hatch.DM: Roll it.PC: *rolls* 16...DM: You find a trap door in the ceiling, but it looks like it hasn't been used in some time.That concept is what really intrigues me, personally. Other people have taken other things, melded it more with the 3e style of task resolution, and created a really neat system that doesn't look like what we've seen from 4e or from 3e in all respects. But, for me, that's great! Because, I don't think of this as anything more than advice or guidelines. I see it more as a &quot;Hey, here's a neat way to use skills&quot; with a framework for how to do it.Even so, yes, I do think a combination of the two is best, the tool that matches the problem so to speak. I'm hopeful that reading the 4e DMG will help continue this line of discussion, these fun examples and play reports, and that we'll continue to evolve the system. In that respect, its given us more, I think, than 3e did, even if most people don't use it to the letter.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ThirdWizard, post: 4193832, member: 12037"] Aha! I see. I wasn't thinking along those lines. I think one of the things about this whole thing has been people rethinking how to use skills. There's a middle ground that is great (and we can see them in lots of the examples). But, yes, a true conflict resolution system would be more like... PC: I look around! DM: Why? PC: Maybe I can find an escape hatch. DM: Roll it. PC: *rolls* 16... DM: You find a trap door in the ceiling, but it looks like it hasn't been used in some time. That concept is what really intrigues me, personally. Other people have taken other things, melded it more with the 3e style of task resolution, and created a really neat system that doesn't look like what we've seen from 4e or from 3e in all respects. But, for me, that's [i]great[/i]! Because, I don't think of this as anything more than advice or guidelines. I see it more as a "Hey, here's a neat way to use skills" with a framework for how to do it. Even so, yes, I do think a combination of the two is best, the tool that matches the problem so to speak. I'm hopeful that reading the 4e DMG will help continue this line of discussion, these fun examples and play reports, and that we'll continue to evolve the system. In that respect, its given us more, I think, than 3e did, even if most people don't use it to the letter. [/QUOTE]

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