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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 5963674" data-attributes="member: 29398">Which is almost certainly intentional.I'd guess different parts of the playtest are going to hammer on different parts of the system.&nbsp; The first part takes a familiar-to-many setting (Caves of Chaos) and uses it to give the low-level combat rules a run out.&nbsp; I would not be at all surprised if the next round of playtest involves a lot more (or is entirely) social interaction and exploration; again at low level.That said,I'm not sure there can be, without to some considerable extent taking RP control of the PCs away from the players and handing it to the dice...ditto for NPCs and the DM.&nbsp; I don't think that'll fly very far.It can also be argued that in social conflict there is no such thing as precise victory conditions.&nbsp; Take this thread, for example - it's a social interaction in which there has certainly been some conflict - and ask: what are the victory conditions, and who's winning, and how does one define either of these?It can't be done.Lan-&quot;only winning social conflicts means you never get to take their stuff&quot;-efan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 5963674, member: 29398"] Which is almost certainly intentional. I'd guess different parts of the playtest are going to hammer on different parts of the system. The first part takes a familiar-to-many setting (Caves of Chaos) and uses it to give the low-level combat rules a run out. I would not be at all surprised if the next round of playtest involves a lot more (or is entirely) social interaction and exploration; again at low level. That said, I'm not sure there can be, without to some considerable extent taking RP control of the PCs away from the players and handing it to the dice...ditto for NPCs and the DM. I don't think that'll fly very far. It can also be argued that in social conflict there is no such thing as precise victory conditions. Take this thread, for example - it's a social interaction in which there has certainly been some conflict - and ask: what are the victory conditions, and who's winning, and how does one define either of these? It can't be done. Lan-"only winning social conflicts means you never get to take their stuff"-efan [/QUOTE]

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