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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hong" data-source="post: 4168619" data-attributes="member: 537">Of course it can.This is only important in a game where all Helpful Factoids are carefully accounted for beforehand. Needless to say, at the level of detail we are talking about, this does not happen.Nonsense. The correct way to approach it is to say that a successful roll means they _recall_ a fact of which they were previously aware. An unsuccessful roll means that either 1) they fail to recall the fact, or 2) they were never aware of it in the first place. The distinction between 1) and 2) is unobservable within the game world, and therefore unimportant even to the most ardent s*mul*tionist.Which is a Good Thing, because it makes improvisation so much easier.</blockquote>