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Message: <blockquote data-quote="apoptosis" data-source="post: 4329270" data-attributes="member: 3226">I brought this in from another thread you responded to.This is I think great advice for resolving most challenges (and ties in with the entire resolution idea). We have a term in our group called Zilch-play (someone else might have made it up and we stole it). Zilch-play is when basically nothing happens. When you keep failing challenges and the result is basically nothing. My general belief is that success of failure of a challenge should result in something interesting happening. The worst failure of a game is to bore the participants which is what zilch-play tends to accomplish.Narrative control for players (and stake setting) is a good mechanic to prevent this (i am sure there are many others).The worst for me is when you are successful with your challenge and it still results in nothing interesting.You break into the mayors house and break into his vault and find 'nothing' and you sneak out again, no one the wiser without finding anything interesting in the house. I am not not talking about not finding what you are looking for but basically the entire scene results into nothing happening, no plot moved forward, little drama was created. This type of zilch-play drives me crazy.Now i understand that this conflicts with simulationism but given limited time to play games, every challenge should result in something interesting happening (even if is bad for teh characters)Resolution (IMHO) should either create new conflict or satisfy an existing conflict (hopefully dramatically) which should hopefully also lead to a new conflict.This is of course more difficult when doing task resolution but not necessarily. It is why i like the say yes or role rule. If there is no conflict just let the action succeed.Wow ...that was bit too soapboxish.</blockquote>

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