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The paladins is a spellcaster by the WotC posse's definition. Most fantasy knights aren't magic men.

Right. But the thing is, in a game where conjectures have habit of becoming true, there is a pretty strong incentive to not make...

This is a non sequitur. Yes, but the causality of the correlation is reversed between the fiction and the rules and this is not a...

"Look, there's some weird runes over there. We've been stuck down in the dungeon for a while, maybe those runes can give us a clue to...

That making conjectures and having hopes etc significantly increases the chances of those things becoming true, and more generally that...

None. But Blades has somewhat similar ones, albeit to lesser degree. People well-versed in game design can read rules and see the...

Right. This is what I've asked @pemerton couple of times. In his game are that players supposed to try to ignore the meta knowledge when...

The issue is that @pemerton cannot accept your reason for not liking it. Thus all the desperate arguing that red is blue and that...

Of course it doesn't make your description inaccurate. Your play is your play. But for me it absolutely does become less realistic, less...

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

No, we all understand that the character didn't cause that. In fact, that is the cornerstone of the whole objection! That the player...

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

This is an exelent expansion of what I mean when I wrote "a causal relationship between character hope and meaning of runes". I said...

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

Has it occurred to you that those who object to this arrangement simply don't want the player authoring these things?