[quote=@BrokenPromise]
[@ImportantNobody] I think a partial system like what you're mentioning would be the most accessible to everyone. Though if you're both non-competitive and don't care who wins, why not let the dice decide everything? It could build excitement, as nobody knows who's going to win.
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Ultimately, for the exact reason I described above -- relying on dice rolls actually causes people to have to write their characters incredibly out of character at times to cater to failures that the character simply wouldn't do. There's a severe limitation placed on realism, as I've mentioned several times in this thread now and [@ImportantNobody] just reaffirmed in his post. You'll notice he also referred to having to write out the reaction - to rolling a 1 on the dice - as 'ridiculous' -- that's because it can't be taken seriously.

The only way this sort of thing could work in a piece of writing and be 'good' is if the role-play was meant to be [i]played for laughs[/i], and I don't work with joke role-plays. There's nothing exciting about out of character writing, nor is out of character writing actually ever good writing. Even if the role-players aren't playing to win, the role-play still needs to go down realistically to be good writing. A person who appreciates strategy and in-depth writing - what good free-form role-players are - will also never find it exciting to let dice control all of the intellectual and tactical elements of a narrative -- combat is meant to be intuitive, not something outside the control of the competitors.

That being said, I could see the partial system working under circumstances where it's appropriate, but as I've explained a few times now the characters can get to a point where they're so far beyond luck that even using dice rolls in the background is unrealistic. That's why I agreed with the GM for choosing a very low tier setting for this thread's role-play.

Edit: Also, just for the record, I'm not using the [ @Mention ] feature with the GM's name because - as I've stated a few times now - he's completely abandoned this thread. Me and him started role-playing elsewhere and he's no longer interested in this thread from what I can tell.