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<blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 8137641" data-attributes="member: 87792">Two key words in there &quot;For me&quot;. I can make the case in both directions. Worrying about death is part of roleplaying although death being a routine occurrence does I agree take away time to empathise.The thing here is that when I turn up to a D&amp;D session I know pretty much from hour to hour how it's going to turn out because all the rolls and challenges presented by the system are measured on a pass/fail scale. The truly interesting moments are when things are neither and twist - and D&amp;D is for me not very good at producing those moments. It's something I do in defiance of the system.That said I'm with you on fudging. You're twelve years out of date here. The system that tried to have a rule for everything was D&amp;D 3.X (3.0/3.5/Pathfinder) after 2e had given it a try with the plethora of Non Weapon Proficiencies, kits, and massive splat-bloat. And some people liked it, others didn't. 5e doesn't do that - and neither did 4e (the two skill systems are very similar other than the +1/2 level scaling of 4e). Even Monte Cook realises that constraining the DM as much as 3.X did is a mistake.Gygax wasn't the designer of D&amp;D. He was the developer. Arneson was the designer - and Gygax literally published D&amp;D as fantasy wargaming rules.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Neonchameleon, post: 8137641, member: 87792"] Two key words in there "For me". I can make the case in both directions. Worrying about death is part of roleplaying although death being a routine occurrence does I agree take away time to empathise. The thing here is that when I turn up to a D&D session I know pretty much from hour to hour how it's going to turn out because all the rolls and challenges presented by [I]the system[/I] are measured on a pass/fail scale. The truly interesting moments are when things are neither and twist - and D&D is for me not very good at producing those moments. It's something I do in defiance of the system. That said I'm with you on fudging. You're twelve years out of date here. The system that tried to have a rule for everything was D&D 3.X (3.0/3.5/Pathfinder) after 2e had given it a try with the plethora of Non Weapon Proficiencies, kits, and massive splat-bloat. And some people liked it, others didn't. 5e doesn't do that - and neither did 4e (the two skill systems are very similar other than the +1/2 level scaling of 4e). Even Monte Cook realises that constraining the DM as much as 3.X did is a mistake. Gygax wasn't the designer of D&D. He was the developer. Arneson was the designer - and Gygax literally published D&D as fantasy wargaming rules. [/QUOTE]

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