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Hang on - you keep posting assertions about Burning Wheel that are false! Recently you also made assertions about 4e skill challenges...

Two examples of play: Running the excellent dungeon crawl "Winter's Daughter" for a group. I am running entirely per map&key notes...

So, Burning Wheel beliefs are beliefs - something we question - not something we reinforce. That's a key part of the difference between...

]This is why I say that your preferred approach is, in comparison, GM-driven. Because the GM being required to have regard to anything...

You forgot to count the time you and your players are staring at each other waiting for something to happen! No agency is happening...

But prior to that moment, you wouldn’t have known the outcome…. Seems like learning to me, but whatever. We’re going in circles. You...

Correct. Authored works do not have any continuity separate from the decision-making of their authors. I don't see the difference...

Not at all. It’s about the player and their choices in the game. In BW, the idea is for these things to be tested. That the dice may...

It's not an argument, though - it's just an expression of an aesthetic preference.

It depends on the context. If the loss of control of character is a known possibility of play, and the player is aware of this and makes...

Because I think it matters to you as a preference, but doesn’t matter as pertaining to your description. In both cases, you’re still...

That's, like, your opinion man. I seem to get incredibly rich, deep (to the point of serious emotional resonance) roleplaying out of...

It feels like goalpost shifting most of the time. @hawkeyefan or myself or somebody else will make a set of statements operating under a...

I see a difference, I just don’t think it matters. I understand that you and others have strong feelings about rules that remove your...

How do you find out if your character dies in D&D? How do you find out if you locate a secret door? Because of a dice roll. Saying...