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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jim Hague" data-source="post: 3654561" data-attributes="member: 17550">Unfortunately, GM craft is something that no rules set can really do a lot to improve.  Again, I think players taking a more proactive stance in playing Virtues/Vices goes a long way to helping the GM fairly hand out Conviction.  Likewise, the stance that a point of Conviction all around for overcoming a difficult obstance is a good one, I think.It's a small but meaningful difference because it's not reactive but proactive - it encourages cool stuff.  At least across the several groups I GM for, with different players, it definitely encourages them to jump into the mix.  Again, the key concept here is proactive - increased player investiture in the characters, world and game as a whole.  After the fact, it's a judgement call; before, it's encouragement.Again, the social issue...and there's no rules out there that solve it.  A crap GM is a crap GM if they don't learn from their mistakes.  I do think trying to create a mechanical solution for this is a mistake, simply because it is a social issue, and thus falls into social contract territory.</blockquote>