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<blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 8086999" data-attributes="member: 6775031">If you decide whether or not to purchase a property, based on the fact that you're a dog (or a thimble), then that absolutely counts as role-playing. Most people don't do that, though, and I'm not even convinced that it's possible to role-play as something without a human-type brain.&quot;GM adjudication&quot; is not a requirement for playing an RPG, but rather a symptom of a minimalist ruleset. The GM is a necessary weasel, because any number of charts would be insufficient to account for the possibilities available to the players. If it was feasible to create an entire deterministic world, while still respecting player freedom and agency, then that would be ideal.Someone mentioned it up-thread. If the DC to climb a 50' wall is 25, and a lower roll means you fell from higher up, then the wizard who rolls with penalties will get higher up the wall than the barbarian who has many bonuses (yet fails to hit the DC). In this example, a check result of -4 would mean falling from 49 feet up, while a check result of 24 would mean barely getting off the ground.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Crimson Binome, post: 8086999, member: 6775031"] If you decide whether or not to purchase a property, based on the fact that you're a dog (or a thimble), then that absolutely counts as role-playing. Most people don't do that, though, and I'm not even convinced that it's possible to role-play as something without a human-type brain. "GM adjudication" is not a requirement for playing an RPG, but rather a symptom of a minimalist ruleset. The GM is a necessary weasel, because any number of charts would be insufficient to account for the possibilities available to the players. If it was feasible to create an entire deterministic world, while still respecting player freedom and agency, then that would be ideal. Someone mentioned it up-thread. If the DC to climb a 50' wall is 25, and a lower roll means you fell from higher up, then the wizard who rolls with penalties will get higher up the wall than the barbarian who has many bonuses (yet fails to hit the DC). In this example, a check result of -4 would mean falling from 49 feet up, while a check result of 24 would mean barely getting off the ground. [/QUOTE]

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