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But this can't literally be true, once we get beyond the most austere sort of map-and-key resolution. For instance, suppose that you're...

In my view, there is not much point in trying to discuss the (actual play) guard, or the (imagined play) cook in the context of Burning...

If you look at step 2 of your approach, you will see why I regard it as a GM-driven approach.

I largely agree. That is why I call one approach a GM-driven approach, which I tend to find rather railroad-y, and the other not. Ditto.

You may or may not know the specifics. You know what’s desired… but the surrounding details aren’t specified until the roll occurs and...

The reason we cannot know what happens on success (beyond the player achieving whatever their intent was) is because the GM has not...

Do you not understand that asking @pemerton what would have happened on a success in his example is not a comparison of two games? It is...

I have “liked” this post as a team-building exercise.

I'd add to this - if the probabilities are adjusted so that the overall outcome is not punishing, then each individual roll becomes...

No one disagrees with this, as best I'm reading the conversation. The cook is in the kitchen because of <insert in-fiction causal...

@AbdulAlhazred made this point some way upthread: To me, it seems that the real issue is this: @AlViking and @Maxperson are affirming...

What you say might be true for some RPGs. It's not true for Burning Wheel. Whether a failed test indicates a failed task is something...

Man, it really tires me out how people here have to keep voicing their opinion on supplements they haven't used or even read. It just...

This confuses events in the world and events in the fiction. In the world, the roll fails and the GM narrates something. Cause and...

This makes no sense to me, for two reasons. (1) When the GM narrates the guard harassing Aedhros, or narrates a cook startled by the...