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It’s not clear what you see established about the cleric before the persuasion check. If it’s just that this is a level 5 cleric that...

I have no reason at all why I don't notice my cat sneaking up on me other than as mere mortals we don't pay attention to 100% of our...

Also why I bristle when someone suggests that the rest of the game should be structured more like the combat, wanting some tactical...

Yep. It’s one reason I view d&d combat as more of a fun minigame. It’s also why I don’t give much weight to critiques relying on combat...

I'd say it does, in that the player is being pulled from Actor stance into Author stance whether he wants to be or not. In Actor...

I just do not believe you're thinking this logically then. The player has the ability to dictate reality to solve the character's...

This is good example, as players having access to plenty of tactical information their characters wouldn't and then discussing it midst...

Of course is different! The player operates under knowledge that they can dictate reality, the character does not. Like if you knew your...

It's not. They are just completely different things resulting different decision spaces. How is that hard?

isn’t the whole point that on a success the player gets to author (create) the runes meaning? The character certainly isn’t authoring...

We use skills to settle what is not settled all the time. The difference is does the character have causal capability to settle the...

If the PCs are in a dungeon and you-as-GM don't know where they are within it, how on earth can you tell them what they see as they...

Oftentimes the rules don't need to tell us that because their writers can safely assume we already know it: it's simple variance in...

For the cleric example to be the same the following would need to be true 1) the fictional constraints on the cleric (who he is, what...

Incorrect. It's submission to authority whenever that authority is USED. Kim Jong Un has absolute authority in North Korea. If you...