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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zakael19" data-source="post: 9845998" data-attributes="member: 7044099">YES!!!! You know how we figure out if there's ever ambiguity? ASK! That's why each Action rating actually has a very distinct first bit. The overlap comes down in the details around the edges. Roughly 9/10 its incredibly obvious what's happening in the fiction from an Action perspective. The other 1 time I as the GM ask a couple questions and it becomes evident (or I say "hm, I think that you're going to have limited Effect here trying to Finesse Vader since he's already got his lightsaber out and is expecting your attack, and you don't have the high ground here."It's not, because Actions are things that you do while skills are things that you know. We almost never had ambiguity because I always turned the question back to "what are you doing in the fiction that maps to your action." I like to think my table isn't that exceptional. They're written more broadly to encompass everything that you would work into the suite of skills that make up "moving around with skill and care" or "engaging foes in open combat" or "finding people and things and taking them out." I had less arguments over Actions then I had with 5e players trying to convince me that they're actually doing X or doing Y with attribute C. I would say that the only system I routinely run that has even less question is Daggerheart.</blockquote>