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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8132701" data-attributes="member: 29398">In and of itself this statement is correct.What it ignores is whether the players had the opportunity to act differently, and-or whether those actions-differently would have been somehow blocked by the GM above and beyond the whims of simple random chance.By this I mean: say a party decides on a whim to sail across the sea.  IMO a GM blocks that agency if to keep them here she arbitrarily decides there's no boats available to buy or to book passage on, where if she legitimately rolls for boat availability and the dice come up dry she hasn't blocked their agency at all - they just hit some bad luck which might, given time, pass.</blockquote>