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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8324239" data-attributes="member: 42582">It's quite possible to imagine my PC making a sword thrust at a NPC, the GM to imagine how that NPC might deflect that thrust with a shield, etc. If the GM has notes that say this person is really good at deflecting thrusts with her shield then in order to kill the NPC with my sword I'd have to persuade the GM that, on this occasion, I've performed a manoeuvre with my sword that even some who's really handy with a shield can't deflect.I've never tried that, so I'm not quite sure what it would look like, but in principle it doesn't seem impossible.Resolving social interaction by talking seems to me just the same. I mean, if my PC is trying to persuade the guard to let me pass, I'm not actually trying to persuade a person to let me pass. What I'm trying to do is to persuade the GM that s/he should consider the guard persuaded. And that's no different from persuading the GM that s/he should consider the guard stabbed!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 8324239, member: 42582"] It's quite possible to imagine my PC making a sword thrust at a NPC, the GM to imagine how that NPC might deflect that thrust with a shield, etc. If the GM has notes that say [I]this person is really good at deflecting thrusts with her shield[/I] then in order to kill the NPC with my sword I'd have to persuade the GM that, on this occasion, I've performed a manoeuvre with my sword that even some who's really handy with a shield can't deflect. I've never tried that, so I'm not quite sure what it would look like, but in principle it doesn't seem impossible. Resolving social interaction by talking seems to me just the same. I mean, if my PC is trying to persuade the guard to let me pass, I'm not actually trying to persuade a person to let me pass. What I'm trying to do is to persuade the GM that s/he should consider the guard persuaded. And that's no different from persuading the GM that s/he should consider the guard stabbed! [/QUOTE]

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