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I know. You have made this quite clear. In the game I was playing, the character had not control over the meaning of the runes either...

Suppose that the game is one based on GM-authored backstory. The player knows that the runes their PC reads were not actually written...

I didn't say it is. But it is part of playing a RPG. There is not the least difficulty in saying how MHRP works: *The PC is subject to...

Well it’s certainly enough to work for an RPG. I just don’t think it’s a simulation. “It’s kind of like this” isn’t really putting in...

On the contrary: you are ignoring the role of epistemic uncertainty, which makes the metaphysical aspect of the situation secondary...

I think you’ve just described the issue with the word “simulation” as it applies to RPGs. I think that when we talk about something...

No, it’s likely more to the fact that Blades puts players closer to the GM when it comes to contributing to the fiction and to the...

Filling in the words in a Mad Lib is both "contributing to the fiction" and a railroad.

Maybe not in your D&D games. I've been doing that for a long time. How else am I supposed to know if there's a cleric in the town? I...

“Mini-game”? RPGs may function without one, but it’s kind of hard to picture what D&D would be without one. The only issue that I can...

I'm surprised to hear you'd rule out the possibility of a cleric in say Tilverton (while it was extant), if one were not expressly...

Playing in Faerun it could be as limited as conjecturing there is a cleric in this settlement that can cast it and be influenced to do...

As I have posted, I understand your assertion. I disagree with it. The fact that the player's action establishes backstory elements that...

The player authors a fiction. The character discovers a reality. How is that hard?

Yet you have managed to say some sensible things about how it plays!