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While I'm sure there are narrative systems it's possible to game--it's probably quite possible in Daggerheart, since I'm sure some...

Sort of. In that yes, because 5e is doesn't require targets to act in specific ways and yes, there's the implication that something has...

Well, if nothing else, we seem to be containing our nonsense to a single thread which is nice.

Apparently the Conan-Doyle estate holds (or held until very recently) the rights to the "nicer" or at least more emotional Sherlock and...

Sure. There are fear checks--which are pretty much limited to effects caused by creatures and magic, at least in fantasy games--but that...

Every game is full of rules that bind how the GM acts. The game tells you how to run an encounter, how to give out treasure, how to set...

You keep bringing up one bad example (instead of all the good examples that can be found by googling it, which you claim to have done)...

He's saying "don't have degrees of success, just make it easier."

Yep. Once you add mechanics, players will find ways around them. Have players buy into the idea of a narrative and group storytelling...

The effect has to be plausible but the mechanics don't need to be the same. As I said to Lanefan, this is to help provide balance, to...

But again, you chose to take the psych trait. You don't choose to run away in the above instance, because the dice say you have to.

Uh... not following you here. Easy example using your lock. The DC is 15. 15 and higher? Success. 9 and lower? Failure. 10-14...

You implement it in the way you describe events, that's all. Instead of saying "no" you say "yes, but" or "no, but." That's all. It's...

You're kidding, right? The fact that many of us have said that it was a bad example, and yet you keep bringing it up as if it's the way...

If you're talking about the weapon mastery thing in 5.24, that doesn't say how the other creature is supposed to react at all. It just...