<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=243891.msg12116530#msg12116530">Quote from: ThisOneGal on 29-02-2016, 06:05:16</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Hmm.<br/><br/>Probably.<br/><br/>It depends on who you ask, what you ask, when you plan on asking it, and how broadly you define 'useful'.<br/><br/>Also, given the situation, the opposition rating may be higher than you're expecting.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>...Okay, let me rephrase my question.<br/><br/>Is Fate Core the sort of system where the GM will tell a player to roll even if the player has no chance for success?  For example, my plan is to use sex to get Antimony into position to overhear two people discussing a piece of information that she wants to know, but if, hypothetically, Kast ordered Zhang's men to go inside and kill everyone in Zhang's office and they scurried off to follow those orders, then my plan has absolutely no chance of success because those two people are never going to have that discussion in the first place.  Would I still be required to roll in that case and then be told I fail no matter what my roll is, or do I just get told not to bother rolling in that sort of situation?<br/><br/>Or is Fate Core the sort of system where succeeding on the roll in that situation would give me some other helpful benefit even if it's impossible to achieve my original goal, like Zhang's men being so flustered at the sight of what they see in the office that they hesitate for a few moments, granting the people inside the office a surprise round or something along those lines?