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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8744221" data-attributes="member: 29398">Which is fine for any task that has some sort of clear physical outcome in the fiction - shooting an arrow at the moon, trying to pick the unpickable lock, and so forth - the setting's internal physics say it can't be done, end of story.Where it falls down - as the many examples here show - is when it comes to non-physical things such as snippets of information characters might or might not have learned, or know, or remember from their own pasts.&nbsp; Here there's no setting-physics to provide boundaries and thus nothing to tell a DM the limits of possibility; meaning a DM either has to say no or allow at least a 5% chance of success, neither of which might be appropriate (the DM might be thinking &quot;it's not impossible, but odds of 1-in-1000 sound about right&quot;).It comes down to a major lack of granularity - there's no options between impossible and 5% unless the DM goes off-RAW and calls for a d% roll or something - unless a DM is willing and able to houserule.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8744221, member: 29398"] Which is fine for any task that has some sort of clear physical outcome in the fiction - shooting an arrow at the moon, trying to pick the unpickable lock, and so forth - the setting's internal physics say it can't be done, end of story. Where it falls down - as the many examples here show - is when it comes to non-physical things such as snippets of information characters might or might not have learned, or know, or remember from their own pasts. Here there's no setting-physics to provide boundaries and thus nothing to tell a DM the limits of possibility; meaning a DM either has to say no or allow at least a 5% chance of success, neither of which might be appropriate (the DM might be thinking "it's not impossible, but odds of 1-in-1000 sound about right"). It comes down to a major lack of granularity - there's no options between impossible and 5% unless the DM goes off-RAW and calls for a d% roll or something - unless a DM is willing and able to houserule. [/QUOTE]

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