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Are you really incapable of understanding that we simply have different preferences on how the game works?

If I have lit torches in an abandoned ruin, they're typically continual flame. But even creatures with darkvision probably want to see...

From a map and key perspective (which is my preference) it absolutely is "manipulating reality" to have the player author stuff like...

The world is created in the imaginations of the people at the table. Before the runes were encountered they literally had no meaning...

@pemerton are you seriously claiming that the player decision of what their character hopes is not affected by the knowledge that the...

yes the question is how, whether in character actions do so or via direct authoring. Your conclusion that the character has good...

No mate. A player has an ability to shape the fictional reality in a significant way that the character doesn't. These are different...

Because some of us take the player and the character to be one and the same when engaging with the fiction in situations where the...

But the method of establishment is what is under scrutiny here! In the cleric example the existence was handwaved. I thought the point...

Several paragraphs down from the text I originally quoted if I remember correctly. But as I said, I don't see that it makes any real...

From wikipedia "In tabletop role-playing games, metagaming can refer to aspects of play that occur outside of a given game's fictional...

I said that sometimes there is no explanation, and none are needed. I linked to an article specifically talking about perception. That...

I preferred spot and listen being separate skills myself. That was a better system.

Those are not the same. With the cook the encounter is not directly tied to the lockpicking roll at all. It doesn't even make much...