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How does rolling limit player agency?

It's weird how bullies pretend to be the victim when someone stands up to them.

I still haven't watched Luther. We just started a Norwegian series called Wisting. It's definitely going to be right up to the line for me. Still want to watch it, but it'll be a bit between episodes or series. I've found that a lot of the old hardboiled, pulp, noir murder mysteries feature...

Yeah. There are definitely subgenres and styles of murder mysteries that are too much for me despite being a fan of the genre generally. The more gritty and horror-themed murder mysteries are too much. Some of the Nordic Noirs go right up to that line, others cross it before the opening scene is...

I’ve had both as well. Weirdly from the same person. As a referee he requires multiple rolls to do most things but when he’s a player it’s “but one roll should be enough.” The single roll solving social interactions is the common approach in 5E. Last I checked that’s how you’re told to do it...

It could work. They’d need to bring in Jeffrey Combs for at least three parts. But I don’t trust the new owners to do it, or any Star Trek, justice.

I started reading Perry Rhodan #1 for the third or fourth time. The English translations only go up to #150 or so. Here's to hoping my German dramatically improves in the next few years or someone decides to buy the English rights to the...checks notes...about 3341 novels published so far...just...

It really, really is. The Defenestration of Prague. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague

The alternative is: "I want to hunt down who did this." "Okay, roll X." "I got a 21." "That succeeds. What does that look like?" There's nothing about conflict / intent resolution that requires the referee remove the player's agency. When you ask for a roll is up to you. For me, the dice...

It sounds like it, yes. That's how I'd do it, but there's an infinite variety of ways to handle it. Individual tasks, parts of scenes, whole scenes, etc. The QuestWorlds SRD has a lot of great info about this style of framing. It's legally free here. "Conflict: Goals vs Obstacles" on page 12...

If I'm understanding the question, I think you're skipping over stuff you don't need to in your examples. That is to say, rolling for goal or intent doesn't mean one roll to rule them all. You can still break things into discreet steps, they're just more involved than a single task. The game...

I’m not sure we’re going to solve the nature of evil here. The question is likely as old or older than language itself. There are two broad camps we can look to though. Moral relativism and moral absolutism. Relativism meaning all morality is relative, it’s subjective and depends on the...

I think that would be its own discussion for another thread.

This is my stance exactly.

It seems like there's two factors at play. The intended outcome and the question of consent. Without consent, good intent. You'd have to make an incredibly strong case for the intended outcome being overwhelmingly good to warrant a lack of consent. Most people view having their free will...

Yeah. To me even a "slight" use of mind control is beyond horrifyingly evil in and of itself. Permanently altering someone's mind in that way...words fail to do justice to that level of evil.

I think that's tied up on old notions of honor. It's honorable to stand and fight. It's not honorable to poison someone. So good people will kill you on the field of battle with a weapon, give you a sporting chance and all that, while evil people will simply poison you.

If only...

Sounds fantastic.