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The player wants to hit the Orc, they find out if successful by rolling the dice. The player wants the runes to indicate the way out...

Because neither of us was talking about anything to do with trad play? We were very specifically talking about how a GM and player would...

That I was not given a chance to say I wanted to be moving cautiously and stealthily. That I was not given a chance to detect the...

I mean, if you're obvious in your deception, are you actually being deceptive? :) But I think these 2 cases are pretty much the same...

Yea, I think that's a tricky path to navigate. I can see a DM trying to do heavy sim play, with most of the setting action (and thus...

I think it depends. If the players accidently take some action that gets them off the path, and the GM steers them back onto the path...

Right, and if "the world" reacts to the players by invalidating their choice in favor of the DMs predetermined outcome, that's railroading.

I mean, every adventure path is essentially a railroad. It’s one of those touristy railroads, of course, where they offer you drinks...

To me the "quantum" label doesn't fit the runes case, or at least is being used with a different meaning than the "quantum ogre". I...

Thing is too, in a long campaign like mine there might be a run of an adventure or two where I end up leading them by the nose, either...

But did you as GM “change” the fiction? You said earlier in the thread that it meant the farrier had always been there. I don’t think...

I disagree that this is semantics. If something is not determined, then it doesn't yet exist, and might never exist. That's not a state...

These two things have nothing to do with each other. The “Cunning Expert” character trait in @pemerton ’s game helps define that...

Like your farrier? So what?

That doesn't seem right. If the fictional reality is undermined and then it becomes determined, it becomes set not changed. As in it...