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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thefutilist" data-source="post: 9623362" data-attributes="member: 7044566">Like with Sorcerer dice. You can just fiat, well not by the rules but you catch my drift. The dice aren't doing any mediation between player authority in terms of the outcomes the players want. They provide bounce or 'the unwelcome' if you buy into Vincent's whole thing (I'm on the fence about it)Which gets right back to my point in the social conflict thread.Resolving characters social conflict by fiat is the Narrativist equivalent of resolving bypassing the magical trap by fiat. It's not an unmitigated good but the ability to do so, and seeing what's functional about doing so, colours everything else. Or everything else is downstream if that makes sense. Given I 'can' do it this way, what are the benefits of doing it in other ways (my answer to this is lots depending on the game)Where as how I'm reading the 'other side' is that such a use of fiat is always capricious to the point of undermining play. Or I've been severely mistaken about the position.</blockquote>