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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 8143706" data-attributes="member: 6785785">This sounds like a “say yes, or roll the dice” situation. Seems fine to me. I think this approach is only a problem if you say “no”; that’s where it gets sticky. Would you follow the same procedure to deny the request? I mean, barring some ridiculous extreme...like if the player declares that his fighter pees on the king’s carpet and flips him off while the bard is asking him for assistance....sure, I could see an automatic no. But in normal play, a unilateral no is a pretty severe obstacle to player agency. Especially if no other mechanics are used to calculate the situation. No initial reaction roll or anything else of the sort. Instead, the GM crafts the entire scenario and then the player says “I’d like to address it in this way” and the GM says “No, that doesn’t work.” It’s hard to see the agency in that scenario.</blockquote>