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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thefutilist" data-source="post: 9613202" data-attributes="member: 7044566">Wait a moment let me back up. I'm trying to describe why not using dice is desirable but that's an aesthetic preference thing. Use dice, don't use dice. My broader point is that not using dice doesn't tell us anything about whether this is GM story time or not. Using dice in a consequential way is disruptive of the GM telling a story but so what. That only matters if the GM is working backwards to get to the outcomes he wants.Or if you really wanted to frame it in terms of story control. Then yeah the GM has story control when they decide resolutions by fiat and the player has story control when they decide resolutions by fiat.Let's say the hitman example happens in apocalypse world. The hitman is pleading at the lover and the MC decides by fiat what the result of that is. The inverse would be true if the girlfriend was pleading at the hitman. The player gets to decide by fiat. That's just how that particular game works.</blockquote>