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<blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 9249963" data-attributes="member: 6785785">I tend to think that it all starts with the fiction. Whatever Move is being made in PbtA games (at least the ones I've played and am familiar with) is being made because of some fictional reason. Nothing starts with the rules. We have the conversation about what's happening, and then at some point, something happens that triggers a Move. Once the Move is triggered, IT is what determines the outcome, at least in the broad sense. The result of the roll for the Move, or whatever other resolution system it invokes, is what tells us the outcome, either Success, Failure, or some combination of the two. The GM then takes that broad category and interprets it in a way that is still bound by the fiction. Why not do both and say that this was the .0001% chance that someone would survive such a fall? I joke in the sense that this isn't how I'd handle it, but I think it's a relevant answer. Ideally, the game rules wouldn't allow for such an absurdity.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hawkeyefan, post: 9249963, member: 6785785"] I tend to think that it all starts with the fiction. Whatever Move is being made in PbtA games (at least the ones I've played and am familiar with) is being made because of some fictional reason. Nothing starts with the rules. We have the conversation about what's happening, and then at some point, something happens that triggers a Move. Once the Move is triggered, IT is what determines the outcome, at least in the broad sense. The result of the roll for the Move, or whatever other resolution system it invokes, is what tells us the outcome, either Success, Failure, or some combination of the two. The GM then takes that broad category and interprets it in a way that is still bound by the fiction. Why not do both and say that this was the .0001% chance that someone would survive such a fall? I joke in the sense that this isn't how I'd handle it, but I think it's a relevant answer. Ideally, the game rules wouldn't allow for such an absurdity. [/QUOTE]

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