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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7089453" data-attributes="member: 42582"><p>That's one way they're used, yep.</p><p></p><p>Another is as in my reply to [MENTION=6688277]Sadras[/MENTION] upthread, referring to the examples of severing Vecna's connection to his Eye, and sealing off the Abyss: as part of the resolution process the player declares something to be true in the fiction, and declares an action based on that. One consequence of failure may be that it wasn't true after all!</p><p></p><p>A third, in 4e, can be learning monster stats. (This is a <em>very </em>narrow application of [MENTION=16586]Campbell[/MENTION]'s idea about secret info being implicit in the ficiton and recoverable via the right action declarations.)</p><p></p><p>A fourth, in MHRP/Cortex+, is using expertise in a field of knowledge to build a pool to achieve something where knowledge would help. (Eg when the players wanted to create a Plans of the Sewage etc Tunnels Under the Latverian Embassy assett, Bobby Drake's Business expertise, which includes knowledge of how to deal with bureaucracies, helped.)</p><p></p><p>There are probably others I'm not thinking of, or that I haven't experienced yet.</p><p></p><p>Well, the player had suggested " . . . like a chamberpot?" And so when the PC spotted a vessel, it was a chamberpot. And then some time later, when the PCs were doing their runner, I said that he could have a jug-full of blood as well.</p><p></p><p>The chamberpot turned out to be an amusing option, because it then opened up the possibility of having the severed head sitting in it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 7089453, member: 42582"] That's one way they're used, yep. Another is as in my reply to [MENTION=6688277]Sadras[/MENTION] upthread, referring to the examples of severing Vecna's connection to his Eye, and sealing off the Abyss: as part of the resolution process the player declares something to be true in the fiction, and declares an action based on that. One consequence of failure may be that it wasn't true after all! A third, in 4e, can be learning monster stats. (This is a [I]very [/I]narrow application of [MENTION=16586]Campbell[/MENTION]'s idea about secret info being implicit in the ficiton and recoverable via the right action declarations.) A fourth, in MHRP/Cortex+, is using expertise in a field of knowledge to build a pool to achieve something where knowledge would help. (Eg when the players wanted to create a Plans of the Sewage etc Tunnels Under the Latverian Embassy assett, Bobby Drake's Business expertise, which includes knowledge of how to deal with bureaucracies, helped.) There are probably others I'm not thinking of, or that I haven't experienced yet. Well, the player had suggested " . . . like a chamberpot?" And so when the PC spotted a vessel, it was a chamberpot. And then some time later, when the PCs were doing their runner, I said that he could have a jug-full of blood as well. The chamberpot turned out to be an amusing option, because it then opened up the possibility of having the severed head sitting in it. [/QUOTE]
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