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@pemerton the idea to have Randal's coat stored away with the cannisters is as a result of GM fiat right? Not a failed roll. If yes, how...

We wouldn't use that language. We'd say the GM makes a ruling. Because when you say the GM decides it just seems like it's all fiat...

Here is the central rule of the game, for the GM: "The GM is responsible for challenging the players. . . . The GM presents the players...

Another serious question. If this is the case, how can you have the players solve an objective mystery if everything needs to relate to...

Then what am I to make of responses like the following? This tells me that we are using genre and trope as the guidance for...

But this isn’t something anyone denies (that these are not identical to actual investigations). But just because one thing is more...

If yes is what you get from no, then I guess so? I don't predetermine a lot of my answers. Quite often I just set up an obstacle with...

Originally, I was going to quote a couple different posts--but that seems to me inappropriate, as there's an argument that two posts 50...

"I search the parlour for footprints and other clues. My intent is to find proof that Lord Calverton was here at the night of the...

.... Are you saying it isn't? Are you here, now, saying that it isn't acceptable to do something like this? Because I could swear that...

Again, I disagree, for the very simple reason that it has been brought up multiple times in this thread that "sudden total reversal...

Of course it makes a difference. It may not be a difference you care about, but it’s a real difference.

Whoa whoa whoa. I don't think this is it.

It kind of seems like the usual lines are being drawn around what game means. Maybe that’s more fundamental to our discussions than...

On the whole clue thing, I don't think debating whether there is fiction behind it is all that helpful. I used clue as an example of an...