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Your earlier post frames what we have all been attempting to say perhaps the best of all. The only thing I disagree with here is your...

I have always understood these sections to be in tension because, as "play to find out what happens" is presented, there should be...

Eh. I'm not lawful enough to think that there is a significant difference. But regardless, this really answers nothing.

@Zardnaar Do you mean equally weighting levels? Or can I rate low level more importantly as long as I also take into account levels 1-20?

Sure, some clues can be simply excluding certain categories or indicating certain categories, e.g. a footprint in the victim's blood...

As above, I cannot comment on specifically Blades in the Dark having never played it myself, but I can speak for Dungeon World, having...

I dont't think having a backstory the players don't is obscurantism. At least it seems a little overly lofty a term with a connotation...

I don't think this really changes the underlying issue. Like the prep could say "'this character can't be persuaded to confess." There...

There is pretty clear and obvious tension between the two. The prep says "the X is at Y", the player says "I search the X at Z."

I’m a bit behind on the thread but it seems to me like there are 2 meanings of find, discover, reveal, etc. being used in this...

None of this really answers to the questions raised. How is this not the players and the GM taking turns to say things about the...

I don't have interest in reading Burning Wheel just to make a point to you in a thread. I actually have to write a movie review today so...

Probably, but you have to admit the latter has a lot of historical weight in the hobby the former does not, so you can likely get away...

Maybe, but IMO I can't enjoy a game where major details of the world are generated on the spot. Little stuff, like what's in this...

Perhaps. Though it might make the difference you mention less difficult to tell, if someone would to demonstrate it rather than to just...