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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6989427" data-attributes="member: 42582">I don't think so. (Or: not in a meaningful sense - to be explained below.)A similar discussion came up on Vincent Baker's page - I'll paraphrase it here rather than cut-and-paste.Baker contrasts A and B below:A: The game gives me a mechanic whereby I can roll to inflict a penalty on someone else. I roll, succeed, inflict a -2, and narrate it as &quot;oppressive heat wears you down&quot;. I could equally have narrated it as &quot;a twisted ankle slows you down&quot;, or anything else vaguely genre-appropriate. Baker flags that as &quot;cube to cube&quot;, with an incidental tangent into clouds.

B: At the start of the session we set the weather (maybe by random roll; maybe by GM stipulation - depends on the game). It's hot. Later on, someone tries to do something - the oppressive heat causes them to suffer a -2 penalty. That penalty is cloud-to-cube.When the hit wears down luck, endurance etc, that is like A above. The real action is cube-to-cube, and the leftward pointing arrow is mere colour or after-the-event narration. Nothing changes in the fiction that matters to resolution because a character's luck has been run down.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 6989427, member: 42582"] I don't think so. (Or: not in a meaningful sense - to be explained below.) A similar discussion came up on Vincent Baker's page - I'll paraphrase it here rather than cut-and-paste. Baker contrasts A and B below: [indent][B]A[/B]: The game gives me a mechanic whereby I can roll to inflict a penalty on someone else. I roll, succeed, inflict a -2, and narrate it as "oppressive heat wears you down". I could equally have narrated it as "a twisted ankle slows you down", or anything else vaguely genre-appropriate. Baker flags that as "cube to cube", with an incidental tangent into clouds. [B]B[/B]: At the start of the session we set the weather (maybe by random roll; maybe by GM stipulation - depends on the game). It's hot. Later on, someone tries to do something - the oppressive heat causes them to suffer a -2 penalty. That penalty is cloud-to-cube.[/indent] When the hit wears down luck, endurance etc, that is like [B]A[B][/B][/B] above. The real action is cube-to-cube, and the leftward pointing arrow is mere colour or after-the-event narration. Nothing changes [B]in the fiction that matters to resolution[/B] because a character's luck has been run down. [/QUOTE]

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