[Long] GM Refusal to Explain Ruling

[Christopher Weeks]

Can systems (or perhaps more accurately, social contracts) be designed so as to prevent it from coming to this?

Sure.  System can be so small that you really can foresee all the ways they will make things happen.  If you like all those, your social contract can be to just stick to them.  

And the degree of flex and negotiation between the players can also be worked into the system and/or explicitly dealt with in social contract.  I'm not sure if that meets your standards for prevention, or if it would just end up coming to "this" less often and later.

Chris

[Ron Edwards]

New thread, please. This one really needs to be left alone, just treated as a spawner.

Best,
Ron