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If the player did this, and I wasn't going to have orcs in the setting (or didn't expect them to be enemies), I would make sure the...

Ah! OK, then; planning ahead can have some mechanical benefit. Good to see this. The 'can' or 'cannot' in that sentence is what I've...

It's a joke. You have a thing on you, but you still have to roll to see it. Which is like looking for your glasses while they're perched...

Ah, so BW is built for people who lose their glasses on top of their heads.

Yes. It's only when a condition occurs due to GM fiat and things along those lines that it stops being within the fiction.

Yes, as long as whatever caused the condition was within the actual fiction, I would (likely) consider it to be OK. If it's due to GM...

Here: you can add this to my previous post: "I believe that." I'm not saying my personal preference is an objective fact. I failed to...

How exactly does that say anything to the question of in-character ahead-of-time preparation for a situation, in order to mitigate or...

You're affirming the idea that a fictional world has no causal continuity apart from the decisions of its author. That lines up with the...

How so? Not every GM out there is going to tell the players the name of the adventure they're running, assuming the adventure even has a...

Yes, I know that. The DM can call for a roll for the PC to notice something or to know something. They can't, by RAW or RAI, call for a...

Sorry, I should have been clearer: Using in-game fiction.

External events affecting a character physical state, a character not achieving something they attempt is completely different from what...

5e Battlemaster - Menacing Attack. To a lesser extent Goading Attack

I’m not making things more complicated than they are. I’m pointing out that when we talk about agency in RPGs, the rules are only part...