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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9709267" data-attributes="member: 42582">These are different, and understanding how they're different can be helpful in analysing RPG play - which can in turn help RPG design and RPG play.What is behind the door? That's about revelation - and how revelations are handled is one important aspect of RPGing. Having players just decide is often not satisfying, if the revelation is meant to matter. Whether the revelation should be established independently of player concerns and conjectures, or rather by having regard for those, is a further difference in procedure that will affect the play experience.Who wants to be crushed by the ogre this round? That's about adversity or (perhaps) consequence. In some RPG play, especially that focuses on combat, part of what the players are trying to do is manage adversity and consequence; so asking the players how to distribute it might be a bit deflating. On the other hand, whose rations do you cross off? asked in the context of adjudicating a difficult or lengthy trek would be pretty unremarkable. A combat system that works similarly to the rations example wouldn't be obviously bad.What is the appropriate DC? is about expressing fictional states of affairs in mechanical terms. Having players input into this doesn't seem especially problematic for me, unless the DC is meant to reflect information known to the GM but not the players, in which case asking the players seems like an error.</blockquote>

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