[UA] Risking it - Sunbjectivity or objectivity?

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

My problem lies in this:

If Entropomancy is not subjective to the adept, then,
whenever an adept does something on purpose which has
an element of risk -even an element of risk the
Entropomancer does not immediately recognize- then the
Entropomancer should get a charge.  Some players would
like to use this as an innate danger sense and, since
it would probably entice the adept to do something
even more outrageous in search of a possible major
charge, such a little "bennie" doesn't seem
unreasonable.

If, on the other hand, Entropomancy is really based on
subjective events, then an Entropomancer would not get
the benefit of "danger sense."  Instead, the
Entropomancer would get the benefit of charges as long
as the player arranged things so that the character
beleived pretty strongly that a situation was "risky."

What isn't acceptable to me is the idea that a player
doesn't get any benefit either way.  Straddling the
fence is bad enough, but doing it just so that -gasp-
a player won't get "out of control" is reprehensible,
discouraging and mean (as in "stingy.")

If I want to control the outcome of a story -if I want
to make sure the characters act like I think they
should- then I will write a story.  I play roleplaying
games for the way players can unhinge a story I've
seen before or which seems a bit stilted and hide the
whole thing in their pants.

In my games, I've seen the good doctor from the War of
the Worlds go to mars to fight his crazed, invisible
past self, I've seen Logan from Logan's Run go into
space and I've seen Superman lying drunk in a field. 
I like seeing stuff like that.  I don't see stuff like
that when I say "Oh, I'm sorry, your clever take on
your Willpower score just isn't going to work.  In the
case of these laws, the loopholes only work for those
in charge."  As always, I see too much of that
everyday, anyway.

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-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
The Electronic Nation of Yokeltania:
http://www.geocities.com/yokeltania/

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