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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 8274878" data-attributes="member: 7026617">It may be, but it seemed the best way to phrase it that wasn't going to be read by people as me universalizing it more than I intend to.That's getting into the part of the conversation I haven't read closely enough to feel I should comment on it.I'd certainly not say anything about it mandates it; it just hasn't been particularly good about avoiding it historically (and to be clear, I think that's true of a lot of games, but a fair number of them are older at this point). Its one of those things that has a number of contributing factors (whether you do the everybody-rolls thing, whether there's any mechanic for a leader to pull up other people's skills, whether you have a fumble system distinct from failure (and at least a mild metacurrency to buffer the worst-cases there).Yup.  As I said, its not the only system I've seen vulnerable to it, but its kind of a thing for systems that don't actively spell out degrees of failure.</blockquote>