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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 9097230" data-attributes="member: 8461">Comparing your first paragraph to your second paragraph, it sounds like it does depend – at least in part – on die rolls. Certainly, if you have to build the entire magic system (which can't be intuited the way a battle with swords, etc. can be), then it sounds entirely plausible that it will involve something approximating spell slots and rest/recovery systems also.It sounds like, at least as far as magic goes, that works a lot better for playing in existing worlds than in original ones. Even then, I can see a lot of disadvantages with regard to people who know the source material better than those who don't. I don't think that "canon lawyers" are nearly as much of a thing as I've heard them made out to be on the internet, but I can see this idea leading to more instances of them. ("Actually, you might want to revise that ruling. The Human Torch did use his powers underwater in Amazing Spider-Man #362.")Because it's not solely a matter of trust. There's going to be areas of legitimate disagreement with regard to how things "should" work, at least when it comes to areas in which the real world doesn't have approximations to work off of. Using existing fiction strikes me as a double-edged sword in that regard, and Session 0 can't anticipate every situation that arises. With no objective metric (i.e. a game rule) to fall back on, these disagreements run the risk of (at the very worst) causing a falling out.I want to stress that I'm not saying that I think FKR is a bad idea; I just can't help but see the potential pitfalls as not being worth the gains, at least in certain aspects of play. It doubtless works very well if you're simulating a Napoleonic battle, but I think I'd like it a whole lot less if it was used for a game of Mutants and Masterminds.</blockquote>

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