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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 9109705" data-attributes="member: 82106">There are VERY few examples in all of RPGing of games which allow players to 'just invent something' in anything like the way that was suggested in MULTIPLE posts in just this thread (and I won't even begin to mine the 1000's upon 1000's of repetitions of nonsensical statements about how the players will just "poof the solution into existence") that litter almost every other significant discussion on these boards. You post and thus read enough to know what gets posted here, so no, you are not 'surprised'.Yes, do that! lol. You're going to come up with very little. I can name 2 marginal examples: you have touched on BitD where a player can take unused inventory slots (and they must declare those slots as being filled at the start of the score and take the penalties for the resulting load factor FROM THE START) and retroactively describe how they planned for the current situation, pay all the required resource costs, and posses whatever piece of equipment or item it is they just described. Unless the GM deems this to be a routine common-sensical equipment choice (IE a rope when climbing is easily anticipated) an additional stress cost is also assessed, which is VERY significant in BitD! There are also fictional considerations, if you were just searched then you better be equipping an hidden concealable weapon and paying the extra costs for such, etc.The other thing that MIGHT kind of qualify would be situations where a player can declare something, like in Torch Bearer 2 I could declare a check to see if I can find my allies in a town. Depending on how likely it is that they might reasonably be there will determine the difficulty of the check. I believe Burning Wheel has essentially the same sort of mechanics where players can make assertions about their character and things like his knowledge or relationships and then test their veracity. Again, all these sorts of things require plausibility and lack any of the character of players simply making up stuff.</blockquote>

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