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The player hoping it was something dictated that it was the thing they hoped for because they succeeded. They shaped the world to what...

Well, it is being changed...but I'll accept your terminology because nothing hinges on it, imo. I don't like play that authors key...

You want me to explain my feelings? If I don't feel the setting has a sense of independence from me the player, such that my ability to...

Only if the end results are all that matters to you. Is that how it is?

i realize there can be other complications, i was just trying to illustrate how deciding if the cook is there independently beforehand...

Yes. My statement is one that was intended to be taken with a solid handfull of salt (a grain won't cut it). But I think there is an...

I've taken the liberty of adding numbers to your list below, to make it easier to speak to specific points without having to retype or...

Why is it unhelpful and confusing to analyze play from the perspective of an independently real world?

Not less player agency. But a changed focus of play. Rather than trying to enact their will on the world via their player character's...

I think this is the fourth time in this thread I point out it is well known that if the success situation is not known, there is no...

Indeed. I think everyone is on board with failforward being an ok technique for the games it is made for. It also has been identified...

I’d suggest those are different people.

Yeah, certainly. I think the narrative systems give players more agency, separate from their characters, to change the fiction, and I...

If nothing happens prevents the game from continuing then I consider it poor GMing. The specific action you took doesn't succeed, there...

In our playstyle it would be against our unwritten (see social contract) play principles for the DM to just arbitrarily decide such...