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When I read this, I see a description of GM-driven play.

I’m literally telling you that I didn’t go on the date because I didn’t get my license. Could I have made other arrangements? Yes...

And, just to point out one of the reasons why I favor this sort of 'consequence resolution' is that ACTUAL game situations are so...

Because we can’t fully replicate real life with a game. And I don’t think @Lanefan ’s take is accurate at all. Real life actions have...

I didn’t ask what else could I have done to still go on the date. I asked why I didn’t go on the date. The answer is obvious. The...

But there's also no negative consequences for not opening the jar other than not opening the jar. Which means that, in a game, there's...

How does this make the second plan failing not a consequence of the first? In other words… why didn’t I go on the date? Forget the...

I'd like to clarify that the more constrained and grounded approach I take to intent in games that use a variation of intent and task...

Yet you keep posting...

Saying I prefer a process because it feels more like real life (to me) and thus helps me suspend suspension of disbelief is fine. Using...

@AlViking Not connected in the deterministic way some people might prefer and not connected in any way whatsoever are very different...

@JConstantine In almost every game with a GM that I am aware of (Hillfolk being the notable exception) the GM retains backstory and...

Do you really need one? Okay. If you fail a test, is that all that happens? When I was 16, I asked a pretty girl to go out with me...

No, this is you reading something into what I actually posted that’s not there. @Lanefan claimed that his preferred method works the...

No, that is not the issue. That’s fine. No, it’s because the way you describe it… the reasons you provide for not liking it… are...