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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9565492" data-attributes="member: 23751">No.No risk?  There's lots of risk.  Risk doesn't appear or go away just because the dice decided what happened or I did.  If my PC decides to betray the party for the gold, he risks alienating them enough to end up dead or cast out of the group.  Just the same as if a resolution mechanic determined that he betrayed the party for gold.  He's also going to go through the same emotional trauma of having betrayed friends he felt loyal to prior to the large bribe.If I played your way, I'd think about both outcomes to, but from outside the character so there is zero immersion for me.  To be immersed IN the character, I have to be IN the character, not outside looking in.  And I don't know why you would think that I don't learn something about my character.  Before the internal battle I go through to figure out which way he would go, I have no idea which way he would go. Even though I decide, I learn something about my character every bit as much as you do with your resolution mechanic.I do the same thing.  We just get to the same place from different directions.I wouldn't know about riskless immersion.  And I don't think looking from the OUTSIDE in can be called immersion IN the character at all.  A resolution mechanic to decide what my character does would be as immersive as having a resolution mechanic to decide for me whether my Monopoly piece buys the property I land or or not.</blockquote>

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