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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8146245" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>Well, I constantly hear people say things about how "it is obvious that X is likely to happen." That's a statement of probability at least. It may not even be a statement that "you have to roll/should roll dice here" (but that was stated a bit up thread). Still it smacks of some sort of ability to analyze the situation with some definitiveness. I just posit that our knowledge and judgment are too limited to ever do that in a way that is plausible from a 'verisimilitude' perspective. Instead it can only, at some level, spring from a perspective of 'narrative/dramatic sensibility'. What other place can it come from? I guess a GM could be trying to accomplish who knows what... but I am loathe to even try to imagine all/any of the possibilities! (seduce a player, exemplify a political agenda, whatever). I pretty much assume everyone plays games to have fun. That seems like a safe and fairly generous assumption. The only other font of such conclusions is sheer gamism (IE I explain the world such that the players take decisions which are easier to process in game terms).</p></blockquote><p></p>