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In mainstream D&D, if you hope for your PC to climb the cliff, and you then succeed at your roll, your hope comes true: the fiction now...

Agreed. Right! The players' actions don't matter, because all they do is change or add to the shared fiction. To truly matter, they must...

I think it's funny how multiple posters who have attacked the cook and have repeatedly insisted they aren't interested in hearing how a...

Huh? There was a whole sub-culture of complaint about 4e D&D - spearheaded by The Alexandrian - based on the fact that many 4e mechanics...

What RPG, or whose RPGing, are you trying to describe here? I mean, the overall tenor of your posts suggests you think that you are...

This is not true. The player described an action performed by their character: deciphering the runes, hoping that they would show a way...

I know that’s what you said… but I took it to mean you were saying it about trad games, and implying that narrativist games work...

Yes. The player affected the content of the fiction. That's what happens in a RPG. For a start, it's not GM-driven!

Well, my point was that players don’t often change the fiction without involving their characters. Change meaning the fiction is A, and...

These sound like some quantum crumbling rocks to me!

One way the good climber will discover the crumbling rock is by testing it, and discovering that it crumbles. Does the GM then narrate...

So adding colour is fine, but adding a cook as a consequence is out of bounds? As I said, I don't see the ostensible contrast.

I don’t know if that’s true. Most rolls in the games I’m thinking of are made by a player and are about their character affecting the...

It’s also unnecessary and more complex than needed, and very different from typical expressions of this sort.

This honestly doesn’t sound like any kind of random encounter roll I’ve ever heard of. I’ve never seen a breakdown of the timing...