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This is not correct. The player expressed a hope for what the runes said. Dice were then rolled, and that hope came true. Saying that...

I don't see how this makes any difference. In my Cortex+ Fantasy game, the player decides that their PC attempts to read the runes...

Play in which the GM embodies the setting, and the GM sets player goals, seems to me to be obviously GM-driven/GM-centred in a way that...

I think you are reading too much weight here into relatively informal ways of speaking. Or imposing your own formal meanings onto those...

Maybe. I tend to think most of us GMs tend to need more advice on running games than we do building worlds. I personally found the...

Well, there are some things to consider. Who made the decision about what the runes were? At what point in the example is the player...

In-universe, the character expressed an idea of what the runes may be. Ultimately, it's the GM who decides what they are... in this...

I think this brings us closer to an understanding. Dungeon World repeatedly admonishes the participants, especially the GM, to speak to...

I OTOH am not understanding a distinction. Either way the GM made fundamentally the same calculation, that a map would be fun. In both...

I'm not sure Watsonian vs Doylist is the same thing as Trad vs Narrativist. Our play is as much 1st person reasoning as the character as...

I think there's value in a worldbuilding guide, but I think a dungeon masters guide should probably, you know, guide people in how to...

It doesn't!

Well, let’s just look at the cook example. Trad folks are advocating for the character’s action to have no effect. Nothing happens...

Nope!

Ouch me bad, sorry! My laziness got the better of me in that second instance. It was supposed to read the action of the characters there...