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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8443132" data-attributes="member: 6779196">True, because “bribe the guards” isn’t a complete action declaration under the adjudication method being discussed. A complete action declaration involves both goal and approach. If a player told me they wanted to bribe the guards, I would respond “I’m hearing that you want something from the guards and that your character is trying to get it by bribing them. What is it that you are hoping to get them to do by bribing them?” or something along those lines.That one is incomplete in the opposite way. It includes a goal but not an approach. “I’m hearing that you want to find out if there are any traps here. What is your character doing to try and find that out?”I explain to my players in session 0 that when called upon to act, they should describe both what they want to achieve and what their character does to try and achieve it, and advise that when in doubt, “I try to ______ by _____” is likely to include both a goal and an approach.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 8443132, member: 6779196"] True, because “bribe the guards” isn’t a complete action declaration under the adjudication method being discussed. A complete action declaration involves both goal and approach. If a player told me they wanted to bribe the guards, I would respond “I’m hearing that you want something from the guards and that your character is trying to get it by bribing them. What is it that you are hoping to get them to do by bribing them?” or something along those lines. That one is incomplete in the opposite way. It includes a goal but not an approach. “I’m hearing that you want to find out if there are any traps here. What is your character doing to try and find that out?” I explain to my players in session 0 that when called upon to act, they should describe both what they want to achieve and what their character does to try and achieve it, and advise that when in doubt, “I try to ______ by _____” is likely to include both a goal and an approach. [/QUOTE]

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