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unfortunately, the mental stats lend themselves to actions and situations expressed through roleplaying, which too often end up...

Sounds like WotC used to be more interested in providing guidance in this area.

Not to be lazy, i just checked ability descriptions in 3.5 PHB and 5e2014 one. 3.5 one is much more defining and goes more in depth...

If you mean, "play to find out" in the narrativism sense .. that's not how I play RPGs, even solo ones.

I do like a good random table (or lots of them) for my solo play... :)

See my message above. Not playing WotC's version of 5e fixes this problem.

Modeling and gameplay and bound together. A modeling issue will IMO inevitably lead to a gameplay issue.

"Fluff" is no less important than mechanics, more so IMO. You can't model the world if there's no good description of it.

I don't see how any outcome you choose can possibly be "surprising". I thought that was the whole point of Oracle-style systems that...

I mean, all solo RPGing is "low on roleplay" isn't it?

Then why are stats given descriptions in every RPG rulebook, if there isn't an answer?

For me personally (again, I am not poo-pooing writing focused solo rpgs in general) the less I have to make up, the more fun the game...

then why is Wisdom the chief Cleric stat? ;)

Too easy to go from "broad enough to make the pieces fit" to "just about anything will work, so the term has no meaning". Would work...

If I as a Player determine those things, then to me it isn't a game. It's a story I'm telling myself.