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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 7598127" data-attributes="member: 6906155">When Einstein said "God does not play dice with the Universe" he knew he was wrong when he said it. He just didn't like the truth.As a teacher, I know that you can teach the same lesson to a very similar class and have very different outcomes. Perform skill + random dice roll is as good a way to represent reality as any.Random rolls have the added advantage of potentially sending the story spinning off in a direction even the DM did not anticipate.Now, I can see the justification of not having a random roll if you are taking a purely story telling approach and simply deciding on the outcome based on what makes for the most interesting story. However, sometimes there is more than one interesting outcome.You could also take a performance based approach to replace dice rolls if you have improv-drama inclined players. However, any stand-up would tell you you can do everything right and still have a joke fall flat.The only other reason for limiting dice rolls is because you only have one D20 for the whole game. I was in this situation back at school in the 80s, but these days all the players have at least 2 D20s, so they can roll the dice without pausing play.</blockquote>