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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 8291106" data-attributes="member: 6696971">I think you're not understanding what is happening in the example above because (a) there are several resources involved above, (b) the there is no GM fiat involved and (c) this is the navigation of a singular decision-point before action resolution (so it necessarily won't have action resolution involved) though it does weigh (i) the implications of using a resource to open up the move-space and (ii) the prospective downstream results (odds of success, odds of complication/cost, what kind of complications/costs) of operationalizing those next move(s) that have been newly opened up (which involve action resolution and its potentialities).The resources involved:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Fighters Hit Points.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Cohorts HPs (or, much more likely, their life and status as being a present asset to the party in this conflict).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Spending Hold on a Discern Realities move to open up move-space and get an attendant benefit (take +1 forward when acting upon it).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Adventuring Gear.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Hold spent on Defend.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The loss of an important weapon vs the loss of an important potion.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Wizard's Hit Points (and possibly their life and status as being a present asset to the party in this conflict).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Wizard's move-space to deploy Protective Counterspell against the BBEG Wizard's AoE.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Wizard's individual Spells being staked in Counterspell attempts.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Ranger's and Ranger's Companion's Hit Points.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Ranger's ability to possess the move-space available to freely deploy their beefy Ranged damage.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Several areas where relationships (bonds) and ethos (Alignment) would trigger (or not) xp at End of Session.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The potential cost to relationships and to perception of self if certain moves are deployed (or not).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Precious positioning and loss of the ability to deploy the apex damage of Team PC (eg the Fighter being in optimal position to melee AoE).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Action economy and sunk cost (if you make this move and spend this resource, you're closing yourself out to this alternative).</li> </ul>I think I've caught it all (I'm working off memory and don't have time to read the entirety of the post again)?Does it make sense how all of those things are resources to be weighed?Where are you seeing GM Fiat (there is none...so what you're seeing is likely missing some system context)?</blockquote>

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