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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4512235" data-attributes="member: 710">Dropping James Bond or the Doctor is not forbidden. Just killing him. The laser beam scenario could be a point where "all bets are off" and the Death Flag is raised. Or there is a secondary stake - yes, you still get out if you fail your "Escape Artist" roll, but give your enemy enough time to succeed at a part of his plot. (And remember, villains do always succeed at something in Doctor Who or James Bond.) Torg doesn't have a Death Flag, but there are Cards and Possibilities that would allow you to escape most situations (in fact, there is even a "Escape" Card that lets you autoamtically flee any <s>encounter</s>scene) - until the point where you have tried this too much, and are out of (suitable) cards and possibility points. (And overall, it succeeds very well at emulating "pulp", with Indiana Jones or The Mummy very often becoming our standard model to explain Torg <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Well, maybe the "you" was not clearly defined in this context. It was not just me "the writer", it was also "me, the protagonist".Not if the random chance fails at delivering the stories I enjoy. I don't want to just to experience/create any story that comes out, I have certain concepts in minds. This starts even without narrative mechanics - if I create a Monk character I have different expectations from the story then when I play a Sorcerer.I think Mallus works under the assumption that the random elements are already part of both concepts. The random elements still require you to pretend they mean anything.I think generally the goal is to set a "theme". We want a story about a group of secret agents that - under daring risks - try to uncover the plot behind the assassination attempt on the prime minister. We want to avoid that the players avoid risks because... well, they are risky. SO we give them some advantage when doing something very risky, an incentive to risk things. And this advantage can be: "If you fail in the risky action, you won't die. But you still fail at it. So, if you want to jump onto the car you chase and you fail, you won't die on a failure or be severely injured - you're knocked out and the car escapes. The uncertainty is not "do I survive this madness?" but "do I succeed at it?"The thrill is created from the question: "Do I succeed at my characters goals" not just "Do I survive". The appeal of this is particularly - if all I wanted was to survive, I would just say the character stays at home, never going on an adventure. But that's not enough.It was something I hadn't, at that point, ever thought about. I haven't been playing that long then. But the idea that it could just be there because I needed it was new to me. It was something I had never thought about till that point in my role-playing experience. It was, of course, when I had little experience with RPGs.</blockquote>

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