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<blockquote data-quote="Greenstone.Walker" data-source="post: 7040753" data-attributes="member: 6788312">In future, resolving these types of situations will be easier if you follow the rule that players don't make rolls - they declare intentions and actions. &quot;What are you trying to do and how are you doing it?&quot;To steal a phrase from Dungeon World, start and end with the fiction.The player should say something like &quot;I want to goblin to stop fighting and run away. I scream and yell at him as loud as I can while waving my sword menacingly.&quot; The GM can then decide what happens next. Perhaps the goblin just runs away because it was already looking for an escape. Perhaps it has a vendetta against the character, so keep fighting. Only if there is some doubt about it's actions should the GM call for a dice roll. In this case, perhaps Strength\Intimidation.In this case, given the rolls in question, I'd narrate it as &quot;You wave your sword and attempt to be menacing, and to your own mind, you fail horribly. However, the goblin is strangely impressed. It drops everything it is carrying, wets its pants, and runs.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Greenstone.Walker, post: 7040753, member: 6788312"] In future, resolving these types of situations will be easier if you follow the rule that players don't make rolls - they declare intentions and actions. "What are you trying to do and how are you doing it?" To steal a phrase from Dungeon World, [I]start and end with the fiction[/I]. The player should say something like "I want to goblin to stop fighting and run away. I scream and yell at him as loud as I can while waving my sword menacingly." The GM can then decide what happens next. Perhaps the goblin just runs away because it was already looking for an escape. Perhaps it has a vendetta against the character, so keep fighting. Only if there is some doubt about it's actions should the GM call for a dice roll. In this case, perhaps Strength\Intimidation. In this case, given the rolls in question, I'd narrate it as "You wave your sword and attempt to be menacing, and to your own mind, you fail horribly. However, the goblin is strangely impressed. It drops everything it is carrying, wets its pants, and runs." [/QUOTE]

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