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Nope. The fact that a lot of players are clueless about the written rules as well doesn't mean those are subjective either.

What? What is? Whether player and chracter decision space is correraled? No. Whether one likes it? Of course! How games are played is...

Do they? Or is it indeed the GM that listens to player input, and from that migrate fictional possibilities into actualities? The...

Yes, perhaps. But that has nothing to do with the persuasion check. The cleric need to exist to be persuaded!

I mean, it’s the entire point of doing it that way. It gives players more agency over the fiction. It makes player driven either...

I mean yeah, this is just really perplexing and frustrating. I have hard time believing that someone could have genuine trouble...

I’m in disbelief that I’m even having to point out that a d&d persuasion check involving an established cleric that can cast remove...

But not to decide what that information is. No. The character decides that they try to persuade the cleric to cast the spell, and they...

No. You cannot rewrite reality (our reality) and make words say things they don't. If a player chooses to author some fiction, that is...

It's not hard to understand. People just don't like it.

They just hoped for what the runes meant and then because the roll was successful the runes matched what they hoped for. That' fine...

It’s not clear what you see established about the cleric before the persuasion check. If it’s just that this is a level 5 cleric that...

I don’t pretend those activities are the same decision space for player and character. They are clearly not. I can’t tell if your...

Also why I bristle when someone suggests that the rest of the game should be structured more like the combat, wanting some tactical...

Yep. It’s one reason I view d&d combat as more of a fun minigame. It’s also why I don’t give much weight to critiques relying on combat...