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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7422629" data-attributes="member: 996">Some are much more permissive than others, certainly.&nbsp; FATE, for instance, and many other systems &amp; sub-systems - even personal characteristics in 5e - put incentives on playing a character in other than optimal ways for the sake of portrayal/story.&nbsp; Other systems, like 3.5/PF, notoriously, provide myriad option but only some of them represent the optimal, or even a viable, path for the character.So like the old example of killing baby kobolds because 'they're not worth XP alive,' that's a system artifact being cited for a counter-genre action, but the action, itself, ruthless as it may be, is not entirely unlike playing the Batman clone who finally just kills his Joker analogue.&nbsp; There's a lot of &quot;why don't they just...&quot; moments you can revisit in an RPG, and sure, you can explore a cogent answer, but you can also legitimately enjoy doin' it right, for a change...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7422629, member: 996"] Some are much more permissive than others, certainly. FATE, for instance, and many other systems & sub-systems - even personal characteristics in 5e - put incentives on playing a character in other than optimal ways for the sake of portrayal/story. Other systems, like 3.5/PF, notoriously, provide myriad option but only some of them represent the optimal, or even a viable, path for the character. So like the old example of killing baby kobolds because 'they're not worth XP alive,' that's a system artifact being cited for a counter-genre action, but the action, itself, ruthless as it may be, is not entirely unlike playing the Batman clone who finally just kills his Joker analogue. There's a lot of "why don't they just..." moments you can revisit in an RPG, and sure, you can explore a cogent answer, but you can also legitimately enjoy doin' it right, for a change... [/QUOTE]

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