Kurt wrote:Glorelendil wrote:This game tries to strip away as much of that as possible to focus on the storytelling
I agree, its why I chose to purchase the game. Storytelling for me is a much more enjoyable experience than a dungeon craw. This is why I am so hot on making sense of a lot of the non-combat skills. Although I am a veteran gamer, I'm still learning
this game. This game is very flexible in the way that you can play it, which is awesome, but with the flexibility comes a little bit of work. In the end it's the Loremasters story to run how he/she chooses as long as the players are happy and everyone is having fun.
I agree as well! (We're all being dangerously reasonable here, aren't we?)
I always hated that bookkeeping aspect of D&D where you had to keep count of exact money and what equipment you'd bought and how much it cost and the encumbrance of every little thing etc. I definitely agree that I don't want to count arrows in TOR unless it's dramatically useful -- "You're down to your last 3 arrows. Will you try and take down the troll, or 3 orcs?"
The reason why I go the "Must see moonlight" approach in this case is neither because I am looking for the detail, or that I am arguing the rules. For me, it's because it makes sense. I feel that having the moonlight there is an enabler for how the eye actually works, rather than how or where the moon happens to be positioned. It's about the moonlight and not the position or rotation of the moon. For me it's an "out and about in the woods" above ground ability.
That's fair enough, although it does enhance hearing as well as sight - in fact, it's
all perception rolls, which encourages me to think the moon is irrelevant.
But we all have limits to our suspension of disbelief. While I'm happy not to count arrows or coins or phases of the moon, I wouldn't be happy saying this Virtue almost always works at night if it requires the moon to be out, precisely because I'm aware that the moon is very often
not out at night! Saying "well, it's night so the moon is out" would actually pull me out of the fictional world, because part of my brain would be going, "hang on, that's not right..."
I fully accept that not everyone is as anal as me.
I pointed out that tonight for example, there's 5 hours between nightfall and moonrise in the UK, and that "obviously the intention of this Virtue is not that you should keep careful track of how long it applies each night!"
