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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8937198" data-attributes="member: 29398"><p>True, but not every character has a 437th-level NPC psionicist riding shotgun in the speeder to obliterate the Stormtroopers' memories and clear the way. <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><p></p><p>My character at the warehouse sure doesn't, anyway. Therefore, I'm all I've got; and to me having my face seen up close comes under "getting caught". I don't want anyone to be able to remember me later, therefore I most certainly don't want to interact closely with anyone; even less so if they're armed. After my surveillance shift, when I get back to my [hotel, base, whatever] I'm changing my clothes and maybe destroying the old ones so they too can't be recognized later.</p><p></p><p>Yes it is, if my intention (goal) is to remain discreet and completely anonymous while watching the warehouse my involvement in any of those scenarios tells me I've failed. Therefore I don't think it's right for a GM to frame me straight into such a scene without giving me fair in-fiction opportunity to a) see it coming and b) avoid it if I so desire.</p><p></p><p>On a broader scale, it's another take on an issue I've raised before: more granularity, please.</p><p></p><p>The very fact I'm in that spot means I've outright failed in my goal of remaining discreet and unobserved. There's no way I'm going to initiate any interaction with any guards, meaning the guard must have initiated the interaction with me in order for that scene to be framed; and further meaning that both as player and character I was given no opportunity to avoid said interaction.</p><p></p><p>I suspect the GM doesn't enjoy the permission to arbitrarily declare failure of a character goal or sub-goal simply in order to frame a scene either.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8937198, member: 29398"] True, but not every character has a 437th-level NPC psionicist riding shotgun in the speeder to obliterate the Stormtroopers' memories and clear the way. :) My character at the warehouse sure doesn't, anyway. Therefore, I'm all I've got; and to me having my face seen up close comes under "getting caught". I don't want anyone to be able to remember me later, therefore I most certainly don't want to interact closely with anyone; even less so if they're armed. After my surveillance shift, when I get back to my [hotel, base, whatever] I'm changing my clothes and maybe destroying the old ones so they too can't be recognized later. Yes it is, if my intention (goal) is to remain discreet and completely anonymous while watching the warehouse my involvement in any of those scenarios tells me I've failed. Therefore I don't think it's right for a GM to frame me straight into such a scene without giving me fair in-fiction opportunity to a) see it coming and b) avoid it if I so desire. On a broader scale, it's another take on an issue I've raised before: more granularity, please. The very fact I'm in that spot means I've outright failed in my goal of remaining discreet and unobserved. There's no way I'm going to initiate any interaction with any guards, meaning the guard must have initiated the interaction with me in order for that scene to be framed; and further meaning that both as player and character I was given no opportunity to avoid said interaction. I suspect the GM doesn't enjoy the permission to arbitrarily declare failure of a character goal or sub-goal simply in order to frame a scene either. [/QUOTE]
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