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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6195860" data-attributes="member: 6696971">I'm rather at a loss for how this logically follows so hopefully you can tell me where I've gone wrong.  By my way of thinking, the reasoning goes:- In NFL football, if you are implementing a drive-blocking, iso run scheme, you hire and train large, powerful offensive linemen and apply their strength and leverage in the run game.  Conversely, if you want to implement a zone-blocking scheme with backside cut blocks, pulling guards and reach blocks, you want more nimble, athletic linemen who work well in space.- If you want to move a heavy object from here to there and you have no tech (either equipment or mental acuity), you get big and strong through training and move the object directly through force.  Conversely, If you have the tech and mental acuity, you use rollers or a pully/winch system.- If you want to paint a house, you apply time and physical exertion until the job is done.  Conversely, if you want to paint a portrait, you learn the skill/trade and apply finesse.- If you want to play a card game where force resolves the outcome, play War.  Conversely, if you want to play a card game where finesse resolves the outcome, play Spades.- If you want GM force in conflict resolution, circumvent mechanical resolution (either visibly by fiat or by creating illusory effectiveness of mechanical resolution and then ignore/fudge/override the results) and dictate an outcome.  If you do not want GM force in conflict resolution, codify a resolution system (replete with synthesis of PC build resources and the conflict resolution framework), have players deploy resources to resolve task/conflict and stridently observe results.I mean, the only way there is a congruency with respect to the application of "force" is if we zoom out the resolution dramatically and apply some extremely broad conceptual definition of  "has mass, takes up space, therefore exerts force on its environment when interacting."</blockquote>

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