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Yep. This is totally unavoidable in that style of play. The reality of the fiction was that the runes were not set/unknown. Then the...

The only time you have too much rope is when your carrying it! When your using it there is no such thing as to much.

The bolded parts are to me counterintuitive definitions of what it means to be an actor, in this sense. There's a missing term, that...

How so? An actor doesn't get to describe the stage set (or, these days, program what later goes on the green screen they're acting in...

Side note: IMO a player's character belongs to that player even if said player is no longer in the game. It's more that in some of the...

The word railroad is a very loaded pejorative and pemerton seems to redefine it to mean any game where the players can only make major...

Right. But the thing is, in a game where conjectures have habit of becoming true, there is a pretty strong incentive to not make...

This is a non sequitur. Yes, but the causality of the correlation is reversed between the fiction and the rules and this is not a...

On this, I agree. It's possible to winnow some of this out, but maybe not always desirable. That's not author, it's actor; as it's...

So a player understanding that his role in a game is to just go down the one true path and not deviate means that the DM is not...

None. But Blades has somewhat similar ones, albeit to lesser degree. People well-versed in game design can read rules and see the...

The issue is that @pemerton cannot accept your reason for not liking it. Thus all the desperate arguing that red is blue and that...

No. He doesn't agree with you.

Because it creates different incentives. Given how you supposedly are well-versed in game theory, it is rather surprising how blind you...

No, we all understand that the character didn't cause that. In fact, that is the cornerstone of the whole objection! That the player...