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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 8153077" data-attributes="member: 7025508">[USER=6696971]@Manbearcat[/USER] could you perhaps elaborate what you think makes it so force-proof? I am not talking about forcing some specific outcome on any specific test, I'm talking about the overall trajectory of the game, and to me it seems rather obvious that the person who provides information, frames the scenes, sets the odds and decides the consequences has considerable power over it. And sure, if the GM pushes too hard, it becomes noticeable, here probably easier than in some other games. But heavy railroading is always noticeable.*Oh, and speaking about framing, in that original haunted painting example, if I as a GM would have wanted a player to go investigate whether the painting is magical, I would have described the room in the same way. When you describe things it is pretty easy to get people focus their attention to what you want and even draw the conclusions you want. it is not 100% guaranteed, but especially if you know your players you can do it rather reliably.*( And if some crazy mentalist genius could do it in manner that it is not noticeable at all, and I as player would feel that I have awesome agency, I wouldn't care.)</blockquote>