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minus-squareTarquinn2049@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up46arrow-down2·edit-27 months agoThe rules as written, tell you not to follow the rules as written. Play the way everyone at your table wants to play. The basic rules are a guide for if you can’t make up anything you like better.
minus-square🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·7 months ago The rules as written, tell you not to follow the rules as written. So… We should follow the rules as written?
minus-squareSeasoned_Greetings@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 months agoBG3 handled it by saying what the hell, let the players have their crit success on a skill check. And that is the greatest example I can think of where a dm follows the rules intimately and methodically but still welcomes the house rule of cool.
The rules as written, tell you not to follow the rules as written. Play the way everyone at your table wants to play. The basic rules are a guide for if you can’t make up anything you like better.
So… We should follow the rules as written?
Maybe!
BG3 handled it by saying what the hell, let the players have their crit success on a skill check.
And that is the greatest example I can think of where a dm follows the rules intimately and methodically but still welcomes the house rule of cool.