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<blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 6864048" data-attributes="member: 957">Exactly.&nbsp; (Not that &quot;creating a story&quot; is incompatible.&nbsp; But I don't see you saying that.&nbsp; They are two different things and both, one or neither may exist)In the real world a person can't walk into their boss and say &quot;Give me a raise&quot; with preordained certainty it will work every time.They may have the professional skills to make it a certainty.&nbsp; &nbsp; They may have an offer from elsewhere and knowledge that they are needed here, so it is a certainty.&nbsp; They may have an incredible ability of persuasion and so it is a certainty.&nbsp; they may have some really good blackmail and so it is a certainty.&nbsp; There are all kinds of ways to have high confidence to the point of certainty.Bot if you are roleplaying in a game of Papers and Paychecks and you character sheet says &quot;You get a raise everytime you ask for it&quot; then it is an extremely crappy game when it comes to roleplaying as a person in a modern career.&nbsp; Some people might have fun playing that, but that just means they want something else.&nbsp; It is still a crappy game at roleplaying this topic.A 9th level wizard know with confidence that he can easily kill a standard goblin. By the rules, it should still be played out.&nbsp; A good DM may very likely move this encounter to purely narrative.&nbsp; But that, again, is DMing vs system.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BryonD, post: 6864048, member: 957"] Exactly. (Not that "creating a story" is incompatible. But I don't see you saying that. They are two different things and both, one or neither may exist) In the real world a person can't walk into their boss and say "Give me a raise" with preordained certainty it will work every time. They may have the professional skills to make it a certainty. They may have an offer from elsewhere and knowledge that they are needed here, so it is a certainty. They may have an incredible ability of persuasion and so it is a certainty. they may have some really good blackmail and so it is a certainty. There are all kinds of ways to have high confidence to the point of certainty. Bot if you are roleplaying in a game of Papers and Paychecks and you character sheet says "You get a raise everytime you ask for it" then it is an extremely crappy game when it comes to roleplaying as a person in a modern career. Some people might have fun playing that, but that just means they want something else. It is still a crappy game at roleplaying this topic. A 9th level wizard know with confidence that he can easily kill a standard goblin. By the rules, it should still be played out. A good DM may very likely move this encounter to purely narrative. But that, again, is DMing vs system. [/QUOTE]

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