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And from an in-fiction perspective the runes say whatever it is that they say. The two cases are thus identical. (Which is unsurprising...

Nothing is being "changed".

So you think that AD&D thieves read runes using their nimbleness and stealth? "Cunning" does not mean simply "deceitful". It also...

I think the lesson here is that sometimes when you google something, you should look at more than the first result.

I'm just a bit fed up with you (and other posters) misdescribing it. I mean, you say it's not hard to understand that it is not...

The rune case has no "meta-decision". The player says "Maybe these runes will help us get unlost", and puts their dice pool together...

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...