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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9289146" data-attributes="member: 29398"><p>You're making the same mistake as the OP here, in that it seems you're conflating <em>allowing the action a chance of success</em> with <em>allowing a player to declare the action.</em></p><p></p><p>Player - with zero chance of success both by rules and by common sense - declares his character's action to be "I jump across the Grand Canyon".</p><p></p><p>It's not restrictive to say "Your attempt to jump across the Grand Canyon fails, and unless you have means of slowing your fall you might as well start rolling up your next character".</p><p></p><p>It is restrictive to say "The rules say you can't possibly jump across the Grand Canyon and thus you cannot declare that as your (attempted) action; please declare a different action".</p><p></p><p>Permissive means they can declare anything, even if the rules say there is no chance of success. Restrictive means they can't even declare it unless the tules allow a chance of success.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 9289146, member: 29398"] You're making the same mistake as the OP here, in that it seems you're conflating [I]allowing the action a chance of success[/I] with [I]allowing a player to declare the action.[/I] Player - with zero chance of success both by rules and by common sense - declares his character's action to be "I jump across the Grand Canyon". It's not restrictive to say "Your attempt to jump across the Grand Canyon fails, and unless you have means of slowing your fall you might as well start rolling up your next character". It is restrictive to say "The rules say you can't possibly jump across the Grand Canyon and thus you cannot declare that as your (attempted) action; please declare a different action". Permissive means they can declare anything, even if the rules say there is no chance of success. Restrictive means they can't even declare it unless the tules allow a chance of success. [/QUOTE]
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