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Yes, this is what I did. I said “this roll isn’t so much about making it to the top as it is about how fast you can do so because the...

Have you ever described a player, in D&D, who rolls a successful attack as having decided that they hit their oppoinent? Have you ever...

I see this in games that explicitly have metacurreny that allow it (Fabula Points in Fabula Ultima come to mind, FATE as well maybe?)...

Right. I post about Apocalypse World and (less frequently) Dungeon World based on my knowledge of them. I've thought a lot about AW...

No, the GM decided based on the idea the player expressed as the hope of their character… which was reasonable and didn’t contradict...

And "don't be a weasel" comes from Mouse Guard. And is also affirmed in the BW Adventure Burner. There is a degree of...

Right. This is the whole point of the MHRP resolution engine: the player never has to leave actor stance.

We could classify the trad GM’s process as quantum as well. That until he writes that the Amulet of Agonar is in the chest in Room 8, it...

But this makes everything that is unknown "quantum superposition"! Which is not what quantum superposition is. I mean, I don't know -...

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...