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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8014015" data-attributes="member: 42582">As you describe this, it seems that all a player can do is make suggestions to the GM. Is that what you intend?I don't think what you describe is the only way to play D&D. It's not even canonical for 4e D&D. If a player says, for instance, I climb the wall I think the GM narrating You are blown off by a sudden gust of wind by fiat, without any resolution check, would be regarded as sound GMIng at many tables. No matter how realistic that might seem to the GM.Action declarations that automatically succeed have everything to do with player agency over the fiction: they are instances of the player exercising such agency.Action declaration that auto-fail in the sense you seem to have in mind (ie GM deciding) are cases where no agenc over the fiction is exercised by a player. But a decision - as at my table - that something isn't possible given fiction and genre will involve an exercise of player agency via collaborative negotiatoin and consensus decision-making abut what is possible. That is an exercise by all participants of agency over the content of the fiction.I believe you've never read the HeroQuest Revised rulebook. So it would probably make more sense to ask for clarification than to tell me that I'm wrong in my interpretatin of it.A contest is a check, normally opposed but sometimes againt a fixed target number. What Laws is saying is that if the thing the player says his/her PC does or attempts doesn't make sense, then no such check is made.The reason for differentiating this from the action resolution process is the one I've already stated above: that establsihing what genre and fiction permit can be negotiated and the object of consensus; whereas action resolution is not a conesnsus-driven procedure. In each of the systems I referred to, it involves dice rolls.</blockquote>

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