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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8285601" data-attributes="member: 16814">No.  You're starting with a position that the GM is curating the story no matter what, so any option is just the GM choosing for the story anyway.  It doesn't matter if the kobold screams or not, because either is the GM telling their story.This utter ignores that the players have input, and the GM can, on a success, give the players their intent, which completely takes it out of the hands of the GM.  In my toy example with the kobold, the players clearly do not want to engage the next encounter with their attempt to intimidate the kobold.  If the players' action succeeds, then alerting the next encounter on this success is obviously against the intent of the players.  I do not have to choose what the kobold does independently -- I can just honor the players' intent when they succeed.  This isn't the GM selecting an option for how the kobold acts based on the GM's thinking as for what tells the best story, this is putting the resolution of the action on the mechanics, and then honoring what was staked there -- which is the players' intent.You seem to discount any GM narration that follows from the players intent and the result of the mechanics and instead assume that that GM is, at all times, narrating whatever the GM wants to.  This is a flawed model.  You may run this way, but it's not the only way to run.  And, it makes a difference in play, so the argument that you can't always avoid bias doesn't do much to address this, because this is a much larger distinction that pointing out a bit of bias.Oh, no, if the GM is directly the play to meet with what they think the story should be, that sounds like it includes railroading very easily.  It's on you to explain how the GM always choosing to direct play according to what they think the best story is is not a railroad.  You can't just say it's not when your entirely argument boils down to it being unavoidable.  No.  Acknoweledging I am an imperfect being and cannot avoid bias perfectly is not that same thing as saying that I consciously alter outcomes of player actions without regard to the players' intent but instead with regard to what I think best serves telling a good story.  This argument of yours is essentially everything is a railroad, it's not worth trying otherwise.</blockquote>

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