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<blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 7159630" data-attributes="member: 45197"><p>Hiya.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I shouldn't have to say this, but..."not every yadda yadda yadda". I was simply stating the two major camps. I would guess most groups are some of OS, some of NS, but all groups lean towards one side or the other. Sometimes extreme, sometimes not. The ones that fall in/around the 25-percentile mark are probably the best games (3:1 OS:NS, or 1:3 OS:NS)...those are the ones where a group rarely argues about what 'would have been done or not'. It's when you have a 3:1 DM trying to DM a 1:3 player where things can get...messy. Every group is different, basically.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm guessing you are being silly/extreme to make a point...because if a DM is requiring a player to state his PC is drinking water should also be requiring a player to state his character is: sleeping, eating, going to the bathroom, getting dressed, putting on shoes, walking down the right side of the street, looking for potholes, stray dogs, oncoming traffic, etc, etc, etc. That's a level of minutia that nobody in their right mind would stand for. If you don't drink, you die. If you don't lock your door, you...well...nothing unless someone wants to sneak in a murder you in your sleep.</p><p></p><p>OS 'style' is about players specifically taking precautions against the obvious dangers in the situation...with failure to do so possibly resulting in death...and players using their own brains to keep their characters alive as opposed to relying on the DM to ask them for checks/saves (e.g., "<em>Make a Wisdom save everyone...[rolls]...ok, Nivez made it. Nivez, you feel uneasy about trying to sleep in this dungeon room without taking some kind of precautions against wandering monsters coming in or other such potential dangers.</em>")</p><p></p><p>^_^</p><p></p><p>Paul L. Ming</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pming, post: 7159630, member: 45197"] Hiya. I shouldn't have to say this, but..."not every yadda yadda yadda". I was simply stating the two major camps. I would guess most groups are some of OS, some of NS, but all groups lean towards one side or the other. Sometimes extreme, sometimes not. The ones that fall in/around the 25-percentile mark are probably the best games (3:1 OS:NS, or 1:3 OS:NS)...those are the ones where a group rarely argues about what 'would have been done or not'. It's when you have a 3:1 DM trying to DM a 1:3 player where things can get...messy. Every group is different, basically. I'm guessing you are being silly/extreme to make a point...because if a DM is requiring a player to state his PC is drinking water should also be requiring a player to state his character is: sleeping, eating, going to the bathroom, getting dressed, putting on shoes, walking down the right side of the street, looking for potholes, stray dogs, oncoming traffic, etc, etc, etc. That's a level of minutia that nobody in their right mind would stand for. If you don't drink, you die. If you don't lock your door, you...well...nothing unless someone wants to sneak in a murder you in your sleep. OS 'style' is about players specifically taking precautions against the obvious dangers in the situation...with failure to do so possibly resulting in death...and players using their own brains to keep their characters alive as opposed to relying on the DM to ask them for checks/saves (e.g., "[I]Make a Wisdom save everyone...[rolls]...ok, Nivez made it. Nivez, you feel uneasy about trying to sleep in this dungeon room without taking some kind of precautions against wandering monsters coming in or other such potential dangers.[/I]") ^_^ Paul L. Ming [/QUOTE]
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