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With Respect to the Door and Expectations....The REAL Reason 5e Can't Unite the Base
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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 5978289" data-attributes="member: 3400"><p>For me, the appearance of Schrödinger's gorge (it exists in a quantum state until the player's die roll fails the check) robs my PC of his agency. There's nothing he did that caused the check to fail, rather it was something else that happened to occur. I find that unsatisfying and anti-immersive.</p><p></p><p>There are many ways that a player can explain how the check failed because of what the PC did (or failed to do successfully). In the horse-riding example, directing the horse badly could cause the horse to receive a minor injury (pulled muscle, wrenched tendon) and thus become lame. If racing through low hanging foliage and I fail my ride check, the horse slows because my PC directed him badly and the horse balked at being slapped in the face by the branches rather than an irate lemur reached out to poke my PC's horse in the eye. </p><p></p><p>The task, as a player and as I see it, is to describe how my PC was not up to the task, not how the task was complicated by some other factor that caused my PC to fail. This way my PC owns his failures (as well as his successes).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="billd91, post: 5978289, member: 3400"] For me, the appearance of Schrödinger's gorge (it exists in a quantum state until the player's die roll fails the check) robs my PC of his agency. There's nothing he did that caused the check to fail, rather it was something else that happened to occur. I find that unsatisfying and anti-immersive. There are many ways that a player can explain how the check failed because of what the PC did (or failed to do successfully). In the horse-riding example, directing the horse badly could cause the horse to receive a minor injury (pulled muscle, wrenched tendon) and thus become lame. If racing through low hanging foliage and I fail my ride check, the horse slows because my PC directed him badly and the horse balked at being slapped in the face by the branches rather than an irate lemur reached out to poke my PC's horse in the eye. The task, as a player and as I see it, is to describe how my PC was not up to the task, not how the task was complicated by some other factor that caused my PC to fail. This way my PC owns his failures (as well as his successes). [/QUOTE]
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