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I’m literally telling you that I didn’t go on the date because I didn’t get my license. Could I have made other arrangements? Yes...

Is this the sort of game you enjoy? No wonder you're not interested in Burning Wheel then!

I was talking about an episode of my play, not yours. And the other posters I referred to were commenting on that episode of my play...

When I read this, I see a description of GM-driven play.

Yes, I know - you said he was practising components of those other spells and working on combining them to create the new spell. My...

I was the GM, so I can tell you why I introduced a Strange Runes Scene Distinction: because I thought it would be fun and interesting. I...

Here's how I look at this "real life agency" thing. In real life I make some choices. But some things are thrust upon me. To mention a...

Yes, as I posted already upthread, the issue is that it is high stakes. Though not only that: if I as GM had rolled on my Strange Runes...

Of course he did. But he wasn't making a "hope roll". The player of a PC in D&D who rolls an attack hopes that the attack will defeat...

At the table it was not fixed. In the fiction it had been fixed ever since the runes were written. They could, and they did. Similarly...

Yes, the play of MHRP/Cortex+ Fantasy that I described would be characterised by @AbdulAlhazred as narrativist play. It is pretty light...

But it's only because of the failure to drive. As were all the other consequences I posted. It's not independent; it's a direct result.

You know, I don't think this is actually true of D&D5e. I think the problem stems from the fact that the results are kinda wishy washy...

As someone who doesn't drive for medical reasons... this is ridiculous. Without the ability to drive, you get cut off from so many...

But if nothing happens when you fail to open the jar--there are no consequences, nothing interesting that happens if they fail--why...