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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8971052" data-attributes="member: 42582">I XPed your post because I basically agree. But I want to come at this another way.In my Torchbearer game, we've had at least two Negotiation challenges about prices - the sale of stirges, and the purchase of rope. In my Burning Wheel session on the weekend, I played out a Duel of Wits haggling with a NPC about the price of their help in breaking into a harbourside office.In all these examples, the reason we've resolved it using a conflict resolution framework was because it mattered. And that's the real thing about social resolution - the ostensible stakes have to genuinely matter. If events are going to unfold the same way regardless of who agrees to what in the social challenge, then the whole thing becomes pointless.And in a lot of these conversations I do see, in some posts, an idea that social stuff is closer to mere colour, than to the genuine stakes of play.</blockquote>