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Message: <blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 8426925" data-attributes="member: 86653">Of course. But those tools don't have to be rules. They can be notes. Random tables. Reaction tables. Etc.One of my favorite superhero games is Marvel Heroic. In reading interviews with Cam Banks, the designer, he mentioned that in talking with Marvel writers and editors about the characters and how they gauge things, the folks at Marvel used a simple five step metric for the characters' abilities. Cam mapped this to the d4, d6, d8, d10, and d12 used to measure things in the game. So the scale of Aunt May to the Hulk is right there. That's all you need. Plus fictional positioning, things like automatic success, automatic failure, etc. If Aunt May punches the Hulk...you don't need to bother with dice. Likewise, if the Hulk punches Aunt May...you don't need to bother with dice. You don't need to roll to see if Spider-Man can climb a wall, he has an ability that explicitly lets him just walk on walls. And that ability doesn't need specific game rules to cover it. Fictional positioning already does. Spider-Man can climb walls. But whether Aunt May can climb a wall is another story. But do you need specific rules for climbing just because someone might try to climb a wall? I don't think so. You can use the rules or not. Maybe dice, maybe automatic failure. My point is that we don't need complex systems to help our brains comprehend. Simple, abstract systems work just as well, if not better, and they have the benefit of fitting in our heads.Exactly. Which is why FKR games push for fewer, more abstract rules that cover everything instead of many precise rules that work on specific things in specific circumstances. Less cognitive load and more utility.Yes, but would you consider your work out something that, in game terms, you had to roll for? Is it something you think you have a reasonable chance of failure doing? Or would that be in the realm of an auto success? If there is a roll at all, it would likely be a d100 and on a 1 you hurt yourself or drop something heavy. You wouldn't have to roll for workout, as it were. It's the things that aren't in our control that roughly match up with things we'd roll for in a game. Outside variables, like how someone else reacts to what we do. As you get to know someone you learn their habits and sense of humor and likes and dislikes...but even someone you're intimately familiar with over the span of a lifetime can surprise you. You drive the same route to work every day, but don't need to make a drive roll until that one day when it's raining and the car in the next lane swerves.</blockquote>

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