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Because the game does provide "any" information. It's quite clear how the stat, skill, and other modifiers affect your roll to show you...

This seems insufficient. You could as easily port that understanding to any board game that involves dice in resolution; the point is...

Its one of those things that seems to vary considerably. I've never had any trouble with convincing people to play other things than...

No. They do not. They cannot say priest give me all your churches riches, that is the thing i want. Or priest I want you to cast...

The paramount question is ‘how are they wanting to overcome said obstacle’. In the runes example the player must decide what he wants to...

You don't see any difference between persuading someone and determining what the runes mean?

I can hope that the junk email I receive really is going to reward me with a million dollars if I click the link but it's probably not...

I think that's probably the wrong axis for that question. The relevant point is the nature of the action; in case B the relative impact...

This is my issue as well. Different games work differently? I'm glad, life would be boring if everything was the same. Saying that...

Yea I didn’t notice that at first. In my games the persuasion check wouldn’t mean the priest has remove curse memorized or even that he...

But that’s not the full decision space in context is it? You’re eliding a bunch of important decision space details by leaving it there.

But there's a big difference between final authority and referee. That's the basic assumption of the game as spelled out in the books...

Well start by defining the decision space separately for the player and for the character. What is at stake in the players decision and...

While there might be one or two people here who feel that way, the vast majority of those on my side of this issue don't believe that at...

As a wise man once said, ‘Okay, So what?’