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Message: <blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 9712685" data-attributes="member: 86653">Yep. Do it all the time. More often than not the rules get in the way, so we ignore them. This happens all the time in just about every game I play or run. Some examples. Playing unoptimized characters. This is wildly more fun for me because the whole point, the whole fun of the game is facing and overcoming challenges. Optimization reduces the challenge of the game, therefore reduces the fun. But playing an unoptimized character increases the challenge of the game, therefore increases the fun. Playing in pawn stance. In recent years with the rise of OC play and the 20-page backstory, it comes across as almost heretical to play an RPG in pawn stance. I don't care. It's so much more fun. I don't care if a character dies, it's an easily replaceable token in a game. It doesn't matter than the game piece is damaged or destroyed in the fiction. I can roll up another in under five minutes. If you can't be arsed to roll a new one, write in Junior or the Third after your character's name and keep playing. Call of Cthulhu 7E. I really dislike the opposed roll system in 7E so I do it wrong by either bringing back the old Resistance Table or using blackjack-style opposed rolls. So much more fun. Also using the lethality rating from Delta Green, it's wrong but it's also so much quicker and more fun to use.</blockquote>