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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8721104" data-attributes="member: 6801845">Specificity is frequently just an illusion that makes the DM's life more difficult. Have a chart that gives you specific numbers for 10 scenarios? Guess what? If the DM thought the scenario was going to come up, they probably looked at the chart to find the difficulty they wanted so they could describe the scene correctly.&nbsp; What's even worse, and can bring the flow of the game to a screeching halt, is when the&nbsp; DM describes a scene and somebody* says &quot;There's a chart for that!&quot; Then you have to dig through page after page, often in different books, trying to find the correct chart.That wall Grognard the Barbarian needs to climb to rescue the prince? By the time you look it up, you've lost momentum and flow.&nbsp;&nbsp; Not only that,&nbsp; but the wall is completely made up, the numbers on the chart are arbitrary. Specificity only gives the illusion of accuracy.Edit: all the charts in the world will never cover all the options anyway. *Usually Bob, because that's just the way Bob rolls.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 8721104, member: 6801845"] Specificity is frequently just an illusion that makes the DM's life more difficult. Have a chart that gives you specific numbers for 10 scenarios? Guess what? If the DM thought the scenario was going to come up, they probably looked at the chart to find the difficulty they wanted so they could describe the scene correctly. What's even worse, and can bring the flow of the game to a screeching halt, is when the DM describes a scene and somebody* says "There's a chart for that!" Then you have to dig through page after page, often in different books, trying to find the correct chart. That wall Grognard the Barbarian needs to climb to rescue the prince? By the time you look it up, you've lost momentum and flow. Not only that, but the wall is completely made up, the numbers on the chart are arbitrary. Specificity only gives the illusion of accuracy. Edit: all the charts in the world will never cover all the options anyway. *[I]Usually Bob, because that's just the way Bob rolls.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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