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This sort of example illustrates why I regard GM-prep-driven play, of this sort, as GM-driven. There are approaches to prep that differ...

But now you're agreeing with me - there is no in-fiction reason that has been established prior to the rolling of the dice.

But all those prior things were done the same way. It's not like these games are mysterious to me. I've played them. I know how they...

If the dispositions are identical than, by definition, they will. @hawkeyefan and I are not making any assertion about how common such...

Well, that's entirely the point of these games. From BitD's GM Prinicples: Let everything flow from the fiction. The game’s starting...

The “we” thing is causing confusion again. @AlViking repeatedly asked if the guard would have shown up in @pemerton ‘s game on a...

I never considered otherwise. I disagree with @Hussar's assertion that "failure will almost always be catastrophic." My objection was to...

This is why I appreciate examples of play with GM commentary on their thought process. I know they take a while to type out, and they...

You may or may not know the specifics. You know what’s desired… but the surrounding details aren’t specified until the roll occurs and...

The reason we cannot know what happens on success (beyond the player achieving whatever their intent was) is because the GM has not...

In actual play, do you really call for that many checks? I mean, I have a preference for task resolution over conflict resolution, but...

But as we’ve seen with the cook and the burning house examples, any number of alternate possibilities can be offered. If the roll was...

There is no way to know if a guard would have arrived onna success. He doesn’t know that. We don’t know what didn’t happen.

Do you not understand that asking @pemerton what would have happened on a success in his example is not a comparison of two games? It is...

I have “liked” this post as a team-building exercise.