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Sure, you can! All that's needed is for the GM to not maintain the relationship between succeeding at the task and achieving the intent. I think it's common for GMs to break this relationship. Here's a post from just up thread: Hyperbole aside, we can make the example more reasonable by...

I think I found an Appendix N example of a sorcerer or maybe a psionicist, Lalette Asterhax, a hereditary "witch", one of the protagonists in The Blue Star by Fletcher Pratt. I haven't read the novel myself, but Wikipedia has the synopsis of the setting and magic's place in it: The novel is set...

Ahmed Ghaleb al-Rahawi, prime minister of Yemen’s Houthi-run government, was killed by Israel in an airstrike Thursday of last week along with 11 other senior Houthi leaders.

Omar Harb, a prominent Palestinian academic, starved to death on Thursday. He was 60 years old.

We're in turn-based combat rounds. Last round, it seems like you didn't take an action on your turn. Maybe you were readying to close the grate or something. Fitz rolled the round, and I moved towards the grate but didn't want the oxen to get an opportunity attacks on me and didn't have enough...

Conflict resolution prevents this because it maintains the connection between success and winning. Task resolution allows it because it leaves the GM free to break that connection at will.

That would be a misreading. He's illustrating they can be used that way counter to what some people think, unrelated to scale.

I haven't expressed any such assumption. I'm talking about the needs of conflict resolution (for which I have a preference, which is what the thread asks about) versus task resolution. The whole point of conflict resolution is to resolve the intent of the action declaration, so an understanding...

Yes, the issue of scale is separate from task versus conflict. As Vincent Baker said in his essay "Conflict Resolution vs. Task Resolution" which you can find here: actually you can conflict-resolve a single blow, or task-resolve the whole fight in one roll: "I slash at his face, like ha!"...

As I am one of only two people who have voted for "Roll for Intent" so far, I feel almost obligated to respond. First, I'd like to say the reason I prefer what's referred to as "conflict resolution" (what you call "Roll for Intent") is that it results in finality, i.e. a state of having won or...

Is that what they're saying though? I'm not sure. 🤔

I don't think I understand these questions.

As others have pointed out, you don't have to do much of anything. It's the player's character, so you could let them make the patron as present or remote as they wish, as an expression of their character. The game doesn't put it on you to do that, and if it was my character, I'd prefer you didn't.

Terrin steps forward from behind the wagon and throws a javelin at the elven cult fanatic who had made his way under the portcullis. Terrin moves to AO-55. Javelin: 1D20+3 = [15]+3 = 18 Piercing damage: 1D6 + 1 = [5]+1 = 6 Having hit his mark, he ducks back behind the stack of crates, ready...

Moving the paladin from fighter to cavalier seemed like a retcon and didn't sit well with me.

Right, I would think that if the warlock's patron features in the story, it's because it's the warlock's story.

@EzekielRaiden, I see in this article that both Mark Chorvinsky and Nikolai Tolstoy have argued "that Merlin is based on a historical person, probably a 5th and/or 6th-century druid living in southern Scotland" or similar "based on the fact that early references to Merlin describe him as...

Channelers in The Wheel of Time is a great example. I've only seen some of the TV series.

"Lead on," says Terrin in reply.

Any examples of this depiction from fantasy fiction?