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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gibili" data-source="post: 7744093" data-attributes="member: 6682820">"The objective in the game (for most) is to survive, then prosper."For me the objective is to get together with friends and have a laugh.  Not that we play to lose in any way shape or form, but neither do we try too hard to "win".  That's just the way we play.  Everyone is different...thankfully."Good strategy and tactics in the game is to limit the number of times  you have to rely on the dice to bail you out of trouble, and good  players do that, while poor players rely on the dice a lot"Each to their own in how they play but I can't imagine playing a game in such a way as to limit the number of dice rolls in order to reduce the random factor and most certainly wouldn't attach the epithet "good" or "bad" to players in this context.  That feels like a terribly prejorative thing to do.  In my experience the most fun and laughter comes from daft and hasty choices, stupid plans and rolling 1s rather than rolling 20s or playing tactically to avoid the dice roll.   There's no doubt that for us as a group, the tales we love to retell from many decades of playing are the monumental screw-ups and not the sucesses or how we "managed" the game to our advantage.   I think a lot of the fun stems from how to recover from the screw-ups rather than avoiding them.Yes, we also joke about "bad dice", ditching dice because they are rolling badly and alike.  One thing I am (jokingly) sure about is something I call Narrative Prerogative.  This is the ability of the dice to ensure the flow and narrative of the game happens in the most fun way.  If it would be really bad but really funny for your character to slip on the rope bridge and drop that vital key into the river, they will roll to achieve just that result.  If you have to roll riduculously high to save the day, the dice ensure it happens, thus creating the great storyline.We've all had days where rolls have gone largely in our favour and days where the opposite is true and nothing goes your way.  We had one day where even with the poor DM doing everything he could behind the scenes to help us out, short of enemies spontaneously combusting, our dice rolling was so atrocious we still couldn't avoid utter disaster.  It was extraordinary and very funny.  That is the nature of random events of course and we remember them because they are exceptional.</blockquote>

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