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Message: <blockquote data-quote="maddman75" data-source="post: 4910153" data-attributes="member: 2673">I find it works in practice in a very similar manner.  A crowbar is something that might or might not appear in the toolshed, it would be a reasonable thing to appear, but there are no assurances of such.  I don't have my books in front of me, but the Luck score is used IIRC to see if something goes the PC's way.In play, in a Buffy game the player asks if there's a crowbar handy.  I'm within my power to say no, there most certainly is not.  Normally, I'll say 'there can be for a Drama Point.'  In CoC, same thing.  I could plainly say no.  In practice, I'll say 'I don't know, roll Luck.'  This is a common occurance judging from the people I've played CoC with, but of course YMMV.I still would love to hear a description of a game session that did not involve the creation of a story.As another point, the presence or absence of metagame mechanics does not encourage or discourage the game to create a better story, it just slightly alters the player's narrative ability.  Game with no metagame mechanics at all create just as much of a story as games that are full of them.</blockquote>