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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9512087" data-attributes="member: 42582">The play loop is itself something that can be interpreted differently.Namely, what guides or constrains the GM when the GM describes what happens? It's not the only reading of the play loop that the GM has an unfettered liberty at this point. Someone, for instance, who takes it that the GM describes what happens having regard to the players' aspirations for what their PCs are able to do and achieve, is not departing from the play loop.I took it to be a case of the player expressing an intended or desired result. I'm not focusing there on their precise wording, but rather on how what they said fits into a well-understood process of play, namely, one where resolution of a declared action has regard to what a player intends to achieve by way of that action.</blockquote>