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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9615933" data-attributes="member: 23751">I understand what you are saying.  What I am saying is that I don't get how you can decide something that is in doubt by fiat.  In the fiat decision there is automatically no longer any doubt, which is contradictory to their being doubt.  If a DM is using fiat to decide what is in doubt, I question whether that DM really understands how fiat or doubt work.It's not something I could ever imagine doing, because the very nature of being in doubt makes fiat inappropriate as a resolution method.  I could so someone else maybe making a different decision, but the avalanche was massive enough, with boulders large enough, that not even a giant was going to walk away.  But I've seen other DMs make all kinds of calls that I would not have made.  That's part of what makes RPGs fun.I understand what you have been saying when you say that you could also resolve it with a die roll. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />They don't accomplish the same thing.  Die rolls are typically resolved in a more narrow manner than fiat.  Take the d6 up there.  It only has 3 possibilities out of a greater number of possibilities out there.  Fiat isn't limited to 3.  Or 5 or 10 or however many the die roll represents.</blockquote>

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