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"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...

I mean it matters once it is codified mechanic and the players know of it. Now generating high priests via diplomacy rolls becomes a...

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...

There is nothing degenerate about it. It is just that the game has more elements of collaborative storytelling and that not all actions...

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

That actions can have acausal effects/consequences. I have not read TB, I have read the two others. I have not played them. But it...

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

This is what they were unless the GM adds a lot more structure than the rules suggest.

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...

How do you know? How do you know? Yes, and the argument is that this mechanical resolution step is designed so that just playing your...

Yes. It would be a lot easier if you did though, and it would benefit you as I am usually right! It would be too strong to say that I...

This how I read 4e skill challenges, which was ultimately a reason why we decided to drop the system.

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

Maybe they claimed the same causal relationship as me, just not as eloquently put as you managed to describe it?

Because it creates different incentives. Given how you supposedly are well-versed in game theory, it is rather surprising how blind you...