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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 9733187" data-attributes="member: 7026617">Notice I said "passive", as in, "not taking up actions."Also as I recall, it didn't work a lot even for characters avowedly good at it, and only helped so much even when they did (I will again note it has been a very long time though, so there could be something I'm forgetting).This assumes that players in a game will have the same reactions to their characters being overshadowed as writers in other fiction who are writing all the characters.  Medium matters; games are not comics nor movies nor TV shows and all those have different demands.Not all opponents are created equal;  a super powered burgler is not the same as a metahuman mass murderer .  And its still poor genre matching when combat counter selects against less lethal attacks.</blockquote>