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<blockquote data-quote="M_Natas" data-source="post: 9187209" data-attributes="member: 7025918"><p>My problem is, when a rule or mechanic has no real association with the game world during play, because it foremost needs to make sense to me, what is just happening.</p><p>But also, I can't forsee any strange interaction a rule or feat may have.</p><p>Like if a character takes sentinel at level 1 and they fight Godzilla at level 20 ... I wouldn't know that at Level 1, because I don't plan my games 20 levels out.</p><p></p><p>But like I also wrote, here, not being at a table where I have to make a decision in seconds, I would have allowed sentinel to work to stop Godzilla. Because especially in a fight I wouldn't want to overule RAW and I hope I think I would have find a way to make sense of it.</p><p></p><p> But like I said, sometimes you can't just square something in your head, while at the table. It just doesn't make any sense and when I (and especially the player who wants to apply the mechanic) can't see any possible ingame fiction thay would support the mechanic, I will rule accordingly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="M_Natas, post: 9187209, member: 7025918"] My problem is, when a rule or mechanic has no real association with the game world during play, because it foremost needs to make sense to me, what is just happening. But also, I can't forsee any strange interaction a rule or feat may have. Like if a character takes sentinel at level 1 and they fight Godzilla at level 20 ... I wouldn't know that at Level 1, because I don't plan my games 20 levels out. But like I also wrote, here, not being at a table where I have to make a decision in seconds, I would have allowed sentinel to work to stop Godzilla. Because especially in a fight I wouldn't want to overule RAW and I hope I think I would have find a way to make sense of it. But like I said, sometimes you can't just square something in your head, while at the table. It just doesn't make any sense and when I (and especially the player who wants to apply the mechanic) can't see any possible ingame fiction thay would support the mechanic, I will rule accordingly. [/QUOTE]
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