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The world is created in the imaginations of the people at the table. Before the runes were encountered they literally had no meaning...

No you're not. Part of being an actor is that someone else sets the stage and you don't have any control over what the other actors...

Has it occurred to you that those who object to this arrangement simply don't want the player authoring these things?

Oh, I grasp it alright. I also have underlying thoughts and opinions about some of it that would earn me some red text were I to post them.

This is probably where you're losing your audience, because within that person's mind what's being imagined does exist. Otherwise, what...

In actor stance the actor doesn’t impact fiction outside his character other than what his characters actions could fictionally cause...

Puzzle-solving isn't author stance unless it gets abstracted into some sort of mechanic. Abesnt mechanics, the player at the table is...

@pemerton are you seriously claiming that the player decision of what their character hopes is not affected by the knowledge that the...

yes the question is how, whether in character actions do so or via direct authoring. Your conclusion that the character has good...

What's unclear in 1e is whether non-mage characters were automatically assumed to be literate in languages they could speak (an...

IMO Everyone grasps what you are doing. They just explain it differently. That is its different conclusions on the same set of facts.

@Enrahim I view imaginary things and player ideas of imaginary things as the same exact thing. Do you? I think that’s been a major...

If imaginary things don’t have real causal relations then how can one prompt a real player to author what the runes are?

Yes, but are they all alike or all different? And that's fine with a cavern complex where you can easily spread out the different caves...

Well, all those wandering monsters have to have some useful function, and lighting / replacing torches gives them a reason to wander.