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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8339003" data-attributes="member: 23751">What about not knowing the odds makes it not a gamble?  As long as you know that A) there's a chance of failure, and B) you opt to engage it anyway, it's a gamble.  You might or might not make it.  And I do know the rewards and most or all of the stakes in advance.  When I try to climb the wall, the reward for success is making it to the top.  The stakes are failing or falling.  When I try to kill a monster, the reward is success and experience points, and possibly treasure.  The stakes are possible injury, death or capture.  When I try to sneak through the Forest of Doom and avoid everything, the reward is no encounter.  The stakes are hitting an encounter anyway.</blockquote>