My goal is winning...
So, you have only one goal when you sit at the table? Okay. Do you figure that's a reasonable assumption for others - that they only have the one goal, and it matches yours? We are all playing for the same single thing?
My goal is winning...
(Also? Variable reward, man. Ever been to Vegas?)
So, you have only one goal when you sit at the table?
Do you figure that's a reasonable assumption for others - that they only have the one goal, and it matches yours? We are all playing for the same single thing?
No. Which is why I don't have or make that assumption.
Definitely, this applies often.No risk, no reward.
I used to feel this as a player very much. The dice were objective, and therefore safe. The DM was subjective, and therefore untrustworthy. Didn’t really matter if the DM was generous with their adjudication, the fact that the could slam me with a gotcha or otherwise rule adversarially was enough to fuel my anxiety and send me clambering for the perceived fairness of the random number generators.because in some player's minds it removes the decision from the arbitrary whims of the GM and frames it into perspective. You roll a 20 or a 1 and it will "force" the GM into an answer that gets confirmed.
its also "forces" the GM during any begging and pleading when the players want to do something and the GM says no "Well let me just roll a d20" really means "let me see if I roll a nat 20 then you have to let me get what I want."