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Whether or not you consider his orc-murdering PC a "strawman" doesn't have a bearing on advocating for player agency, is my point. If...

I did wonder aloud about games that might treat in such social points in a different thread, and soviet's idea is an interesting one in...

I think this is another version of what I was just saying: it is possible to have the outcome of the social interaction modify the game...

So your approach is to assume bad faith by the player and force them into situations that fit the way you think they should be playing...

This sentiment...which I totally agree with, by the way...is repeatedly countered with the argument "but some players can't be trusted...

"I don't trust your motivation, so you have to let the dice decide or be vetoed" is how we got into ::gestures over the thread:: this mess.

If opting out is a choice and comes with no negative consequences vs. risking it to a roll and potentially getting negative consequences...

For whatever it's worth to the thread, my attempt to preserve agency but still have some teeth to the social encounter would be a simple...

So they can choose not to be persuaded? And by "set" you mean calculate by formula given by the GM. And that's it? They lower their...

Your original post made that one check sound like the completion of the social phase and the results were the conclusion ("...these...

In light of this reply, I don't understand why that mechanical check against Persuasion was worded the way it was, at all.

You don't seem to understand the ramifications of game language, or you are presenting the options poorly. To a player, this reads as...

Yeah that’s certainly true, and eg. for browsers there’s scant support for certain kinds of annotations (at least in open source...

I think I disagree with the premise, that a single miss in combat creates a frozen narrative. If the state of play hasn't changed...

The problem isn't the debate over differing views, that's interesting. The problem is that they arrived at those views with the implicit...