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Message: <blockquote data-quote="soviet" data-source="post: 9642035" data-attributes="member: 6925338">None of this requires a GM's thumb on the scale. It can all be done with open and principled resolution. You will probably be familiar with the Campaign Sourcebook and Catacomb Guide from AD&D second edition (which is a great book). There's a whole section in there that (from memory) is all about a group painting a dead minotaur red and throwing it down the stairs accompanied by some minor illusion magic to scare off some higher level bandits. The advice in the book talks about how if the GM breaks it down to a sequence of rolls the likelihood is that one thing will fail and so the bluff won't work and the characters will be killed. Therefore the GM must step aside from the rules and fiat the outcome. But that isn't the only solution. Any modern conflict resolution game can quite easily set up a conflict where the fighter's strength in throwing the minotaur is supported by the wizard's illusion magic and the thief's threatening words to create a roll with the stakes 'the bandits are scared away'. Skill challenges from 4e and similar group checks from other games can also achieve a similar thing.</blockquote>