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Right, which is why suggestions of "cheating" or "get-out-of-jail-free cards" is irrelevant to this discussion. Something done...

Surely this only makes sense as a concern in terms of challenge base play? All play changes the narrative and the current state of the...

The script used by the builders of Moria is explicitly called runic in the text. The Book of Marzabul is written in at least two...

And we pretend these falsehoods are true, for the time we pretend to spend in that world. Otherwise there would be no reason to suspend...

Or the visitor was a long time ago and was writing in something readable for their time. Or the original builders put the map in place...

That our fictional worlds exist, that we have characters that inhabit them?

Also Heavy Gear, Mekton, Warhammer Fantasy?

For a "War" RPG, would that be something like the MechWarrior RPGs, Lancer and the 40k war based rpgs?

Not really. Neither I or the 30 year creator are required to incorporate fiction arising from the game into their world.

For this case in particular, no aspect of the world is under threat. Even if the GM/Author runs a game in the setting, they are under...

Correct - the GM could have stepped in (or rather, dropped out of character from the role they were playing as the ghost lord NPC) at...

I'm only saying you seem to be describing a modal shift between "perceiving" and "authoring", enough that the mental shift can disrupt...

I think there are two elements here that I think make the situation interesting and maybe unusual in the context of this thread. One...

For this case, I'd think I'd agree with @TwoSix in that the authoring here was largely subconscious - a process of fabulation. By being...

Sure, that makes sense. In this case, the village was ruined and all the relevant NPCs were dead or gone, so it's not the kind of...