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Physical challenge vs mental challenge. The trapdoor is a clear and obvious physical challenge for the PC(s) to overcome. Physical...

You're conflating intent and action here (and also pointing out the reason I'm not thrilled with systems that demand intent as part of...

You and me both!

Let say I were to use this in my game So, Has anything been established in play about who passed through here/who built this...

I think we have to be practical here, the player may also not determine the runes give them mad-xyz. The xyz would have to be measured...

Great example above by the way. The only counter to this (and I'm not even satisfied with my counter tbh so I'm not really expecting a...

@AnotherGuy pointed out that the runes through being settled in play could turn out to have a variety of features. Whereas the stone...

The example shows that there are parallels between determining what the runes could indicate, and determining what an NPC does. It...

You just need to find some runes and hope they indicate an exit ;)

That is a good framing. I'll leave the MHRP case to others, to focus on D&D. In formulating my example upthread, I had in mind a more...

Post 20,000! Let’s give it up for post 20,000! Wooo!

Marvel Heroic RP. The "strange runes" example is an episode of play from a fantasy variant of that system (inspired by the Hacker's...

Sorry I have not been following this thread religiously, what is MHRP? I would expect the answer to my question about the level of...

I like this example. With a trapdoor, you already know its function. Your roll is to utilise its function. With the runes, you do not...

In my example players took parallel actions, required parallel abilities and skills, and had identical chances of success. Can you help...