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This claim seems false to me. In a "trad" game in which it is known that something dramatic is happening right now at the top of a...

And you know its usually what I'm talking about.

Only works when you assume a weapon only exists for defense. As a hunter how useful a weapon he doesn't use is.

No. If you read the account of play, you'll see that they were teleported by a Crypt Thing. Maybe you're not familiar with the Crypt...

See, this is where I assert that you are just confused about how fiction works. The fiction is not being changed. It is being authored...

And if more folks held a position like this, I wouldn't have nearly as much of a problem. Instead, there have been several folks across...

Although, as per my long post just upthread, this is still too simple. When the GM narrates firm holds, or crumbling holds, depending...

It's simply false to say that the runes are simultaneously good and bad. They may be good. They may be bad. They may be neither -...

Absolutely not. "There is an iceberg ahead" is only a complication if the person at the helm doesn't know how to pilot their ship. The...

No. My issue is that (i) it's utterly routine for the GM to make a decision to narrate/introduce some bit of fiction prompted by some...

It is different, but when decided after the presence of the cook is up to the GM. The complication is up to the GM. It might take a lot...

I'm pretty sure the idea is that the mechanics lend to the simulation. To paraphrase Hussar, the rules don't just say you miss in...

No, this is still wrong. When the dice are rolled, the GM could decide that there's a cook, or no cook, whether or not the roll is a...

I've never found this argument persuasive, and I don't like the camps it sets up. There's no need to cede the grounds of system to other...

Except that you're forgetting some very important things: One: The GM and player work together to make a good story. The GM isn't...