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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9688634" data-attributes="member: 29398">Seems a reasonable enough action declaration in any game.The difference in a more traditional game being that it's the DM who determines (by one means or another) whether any of Jonno's fishing buddies happen to be there, and then if he does find any the DM determines - again by one means or another - just how keen those buddies are to help Jonno and-or what they think of him.The end result in play in this case, when looked at in hindsight, could well be indistinguishable from one system to the other.And this all assumes, I assume, that nobody specific among the fishers has been established in prior fiction.  For example if in past play Jonno's told stories to the party about Captain Walsey and how she brought them home safe in the Great Gale of '93 in a boat that had every business being sunk by that storm etc. etc. then maybe it's Captain Walsey specifically he's looking for now, or another fellow survivor from that crew....or maybe he wants to avoid them as his stories are stolen from the real survivors just to gain free beer in the bars, and he was never in fact aboard Walsey's boat.</blockquote>