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I see what you're saying. What I would prefer, in a conversation, would be for people to talk about the approaches they use, rather...

Huh? Player B said a thing. Which changed the shared fiction - that's a change in an actual mental state. The imaginary stuff didn't do...

So the in-fiction suggestion spell caused the player to do that. Without the suggestion spell, the player almost surely doesn't say it...

Are you using "reason" as synonymous with "cause". Because you are replying to a post which is one in a series of posts by me that talks...

I'm not denying that people can imagine X causing Y. We do it all the time. I'm simply saying that imaginary things don't exert actual...

No I'm not backpedalling, and no I didn't say that you or anyone else is engaged in self-deception. (And I notice that you don't adduce...

And as both I and @thefutilist posted - in posts to which you have not replied - this is no different from anyone else's RPGing. All...

This is the old "only roll once" thing. In the formulations I've seen (widely used outside of BW and long predating it) the GM should...

Nobody is trying to be insulting or obtuse or anything else. I'm an engineer and a scientist, I get to the ground truth of things, what...

Maybe not. But in your post you go on to (i) set out a "story arc", and do it (ii) in terms of logistics, tasks and puzzles/problems...

Or is it murderhobodude?

I would say it is better to look at plans as tools. They are a natural concomitant to ephemera. Humans have developed both elaborate...

Back a bunch of pages, I got told in no uncertain terms that one of the strengths of sandbox games is how it can so easily adopt player...

And yet a character can become Frightened against the player's will. Specifically because they failed a roll, since that was the big...

It is most striking to me how this little exchange is echoing closely some of the discussions that happened almost 25 years ago at The...