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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 9855730" data-attributes="member: 3400">Honestly, that's real life where events will follow as complex a set of factors as they must in order to resolve a question such as &quot;who will win this skiing event&quot;. But for a game, we don't know all or even most of the factors so we replace it with a stochastic factor to account for all of those other unaccountables. And whatever would be the equivalent of rolling under whatever she needed to get the bottom of the hill given her level of skill and the difficulty of the task - that's what Lindsey Vonn got on this particular trial.Edit:MegaTraveller would almost certainly have called it a fateful task, meaning a failure would mean something bad happening. Perhaps having already injured her ACL, Vonn would have faced a hazardous one as well where a bad result is worsened than for someone not trying a hazardous check. Just to interject some other RPGs into the mix...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="billd91, post: 9855730, member: 3400"] Honestly, that's real life where events will follow as complex a set of factors as they must in order to resolve a question such as "who will win this skiing event". But for a game, we don't know all or even most of the factors so we replace it with a stochastic factor to account for all of those other unaccountables. And whatever would be the equivalent of rolling under whatever she needed to get the bottom of the hill given her level of skill and the difficulty of the task - that's what Lindsey Vonn got on this particular trial. Edit: MegaTraveller would almost certainly have called it a fateful task, meaning a failure would mean something bad happening. Perhaps having already injured her ACL, Vonn would have faced a hazardous one as well where a bad result is worsened than for someone not trying a hazardous check. Just to interject some other RPGs into the mix... [/QUOTE]

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