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<blockquote data-quote="Pedantic" data-source="post: 9608285" data-attributes="member: 6690965">As always, this fails to consider limitations on what the GM might &quot;narrate&quot; that live outside any individual act of resolution. The states in which the GM might or might not &quot;introduce a threat&quot; are not necessarily unknowable, unknown, nor generally equivalent outside of the alarm spell. Neatly dividing the world between &quot;a die roll&quot; and &quot; the web of interacting consequences being simulated in the GM's brain&quot; and calling the latter fiat is way too reductive. There's frankly more difference in how two GMs with differing understanding of their roles might determine what happens next, and the relative agency of players in their games. An alarm down might be an invitation to trigger it, a request to have problems happen or it might be a carefully calibrated precaution that renders surprise impossible. Unless that +1 is capable of overwhelming the RNG on that die roll, it cannot be the same decision as the latter case, and unless the camp roll doesn't happen every time, it cannot be the former.The space being called &quot;fiat&quot; here is vast and almost certainly subject to more constraints than the name and comparison suggests.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pedantic, post: 9608285, member: 6690965"] As always, this fails to consider limitations on what the GM might "narrate" that live outside any individual act of resolution. The states in which the GM might or might not "introduce a threat" are not necessarily unknowable, unknown, nor generally equivalent outside of the alarm spell. Neatly dividing the world between "a die roll" and " the web of interacting consequences being simulated in the GM's brain" and calling the latter fiat is way too reductive. There's frankly more difference in how two GMs with differing understanding of their roles might determine what happens next, and the relative agency of players in their games. An alarm down might be an invitation to trigger it, a request to have problems happen or it might be a carefully calibrated precaution that renders surprise impossible. Unless that +1 is capable of overwhelming the RNG on that die roll, it cannot be the same decision as the latter case, and unless the camp roll doesn't happen every time, it cannot be the former. The space being called "fiat" here is vast and almost certainly subject to more constraints than the name and comparison suggests. [/QUOTE]

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