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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8255034" data-attributes="member: 16814"><p>You're trying to hide the pea.&nbsp; In D&amp;D, players declare actions for the GM to tell them how it went.&nbsp; This is part an parcel of 5e, it written on page 4 of the PHB -- the GM narrates the outcome of an action.&nbsp; There are almost no constraints on this -- if the action runs afoul of the GM's conception of the fiction, then the GM is 100% free to narrate a failure outright, even after asking for a check (some GMs advocate for doing this so as to obfuscate even further).&nbsp; This is starkly different from Blades, where the player gets exactly what they want.&nbsp; The point you make about some cost being likely is true(ish), but this doesn't change that the player still gets to say what happens, but the GM also gets to say something else happens in addition.&nbsp; This extra say of the GM cannot negate or reduce the player's success -- they get to say that thing happens.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 8255034, member: 16814"] You're trying to hide the pea. In D&D, players declare actions for the GM to tell them how it went. This is part an parcel of 5e, it written on page 4 of the PHB -- the GM narrates the outcome of an action. There are almost no constraints on this -- if the action runs afoul of the GM's conception of the fiction, then the GM is 100% free to narrate a failure outright, even after asking for a check (some GMs advocate for doing this so as to obfuscate even further). This is starkly different from Blades, where the player gets exactly what they want. The point you make about some cost being likely is true(ish), but this doesn't change that the player still gets to say what happens, but the GM also gets to say something else happens in addition. This extra say of the GM cannot negate or reduce the player's success -- they get to say that thing happens. [/QUOTE]

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