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<blockquote data-quote="robus" data-source="post: 7218413" data-attributes="member: 6801558"><p>I think it depends on what you let lead: dice or narrative. For you (and me) it sounds like the narrative contributed by you and the players take the lead with the dice/rules coming into play to resolve uncertainty. For others it seems like most actions are left to the dice making it feel more game-y? </p><p></p><p>For example last night's session involved just one die roll (by me) but the players led the narrative with their decisions on what to do next. I just gave the world's response. At other tables I think there might have been more rolls to determine whether a line of questioning succeeded or not. But I felt my players read the situation wisely and eliminated uncertainty by bribery or sweet-talking people.</p><p></p><p>There was a moment when one of the players tried to shortchange a bribe - but they wisely caved when confronted by the NPC about it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="robus, post: 7218413, member: 6801558"] I think it depends on what you let lead: dice or narrative. For you (and me) it sounds like the narrative contributed by you and the players take the lead with the dice/rules coming into play to resolve uncertainty. For others it seems like most actions are left to the dice making it feel more game-y? For example last night's session involved just one die roll (by me) but the players led the narrative with their decisions on what to do next. I just gave the world's response. At other tables I think there might have been more rolls to determine whether a line of questioning succeeded or not. But I felt my players read the situation wisely and eliminated uncertainty by bribery or sweet-talking people. There was a moment when one of the players tried to shortchange a bribe - but they wisely caved when confronted by the NPC about it :) [/QUOTE]
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