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If the wished for result was contradictory to what had been established or was otherwise nonsensical. Real life isn’t a game with...

Even this is not quite correct. The player said, as their PC, "I will try and decipher these runes, hoping that they will reveal a way...

I think it’s a little different than that. 1. The runes were undefined. 2. The player had his character express a hope for what the...

Huh? It seems to me pointless to try and talk about "PbtA" as a class. That would be liking talking about all games that involve...

If a player has to first sort of explore the setting through their character and often will have to engage in unrelated matters to...

It seems obvious to me that if the GM embodies the setting, the players are not at full liberty to set their own goals. Or...

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...