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The nice thing is that it seems like you can flavor it as a spell if you want, but you definitely don't have to, so there's plenty of...

For me, I see the degree of stakes as being an independent quality of almost no consequence whatsoever. Consider two all-roleplay and...

I'm there to play a character that - because it's my own invention - I in theory already know everything about that I need to know in...

No, I don't think I did miss the point. Players, IME, don't want to lose their autonomy to arbitrary die rolls. I am not talking about...

Most players don't want their characters to be mind controlled by an NPC or other PC, especially when it's not magical in origin. In...

I wasn't, really. I was trying to find out why you decided that one action was high stakes and one was low stakes. <double mega...

Re the bolded: What this would seem to prevent, or at least very strongly discourage, is the players in-character from distracting...

Sure. I imagine that it's perfectly fine in BW to say "OK, you sneak into the guardhouse and get a copy of the schedule. Now what?" and...

Do you mean like how failing in combat in D&D requires you to play your character as dead?

That's right. Putting the decision making on the system instead does spare you from the arbitrary GM. But it doesn't offer the same...

Well, the point of my question isn't secrets; I was just using them as analogies. Here, Micah asked why the PCs couldn't just get the...

Just to pick one section: "The PCs' goal was to persuade Lareth that Fea-bella is, indeed, his sister, and hence that he should offer...

The examples are so full of jargon that I don't always understand what's going on and I see no indication of what the player says or...

That doesn't address the issue, though.

Questions: (1) If the PCs in a BW game decide to go to a tavern, who decides what the tavern is like? If the PCs get to describe a...