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This is an interesting claim. I want to examine it a bit closer. The player and character both recognise the runes. Both could...

Yep. It’s one reason I view d&d combat as more of a fun minigame. It’s also why I don’t give much weight to critiques relying on combat...

This is good example, as players having access to plenty of tactical information their characters wouldn't and then discussing it midst...

Thank you! I would rule out "No it is not" on plain facts of the matter: it is perforce players and not their characters that experience...

If you go reread the original runes example just posted this looks to be exactly what happened there. The player was lost and wanted the...

Contributing to the shared fiction is not sufficient to call something an rpg, else pass the conch would be an rpg. An RPG is about...

Knowledge checks would be a better Rolling dice and adding bonuses is not a decision space. It is certainly things a character isn’t...

It's not. They are just completely different things resulting different decision spaces. How is that hard?

Fair. Language got sloppy at some point. I was having in mind the distinction proposed in post #19,991. There utilising a in fiction...

If the player really isn’t authoring the runes meaning, why wasn’t this pointed out from the begginning? That’s been a huge part of the...

isn’t the whole point that on a success the player gets to author (create) the runes meaning? The character certainly isn’t authoring...

It is not. Yes there is. The conjecture causes the reality rather than the reality causing the conjecture.

We use skills to settle what is not settled all the time. The difference is does the character have causal capability to settle the...

I mean don’t attack rolls determine fiction not yet settled? Or is fiction not yet settled intended to be more narrow in scope?

It is not really beside the point. The persuasion check also seem inadequate for representing the process of finding an applicable...