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I haven't read the full 7000+ posts, so sorry if this is repeating something already discussed to death. But on the topic of "Realism"...

This caught me off-guard, particularly the last point, but I found it quite clarifying. I would have inverted that when discussing what...

I do wish the 2024 rules didn’t foreground “fun” so much in their guidelines for how to make decisions. Ah well.

OK, you do realize that not every GM runs in exactly the same way, and thus different people are going to give you different responses...

Yes, although I am adding that which is imagined among them. So that the world as it is imagined, and the events that are imagined to be...

At a very basic level, it's pretty simple. Players will repeatedly throw at me doubtful propositions where the outcome isn't obvious or...

I don't think I agree at all with this. Making choices that determine the outcome of play is, I would argue, the entirety of expressing...

That's not quite what I'm getting at. I'm not sure I agree we couldn't do a choice by choice analysis, but it's not what I was driving...

I'm not sure that's relevant to my question, given we're talking about player agency. I can accept a different goal, but I'd still...

I'm curious about how that actually works. I understand agency in trick taking (setting aside bidding as a whole separate question) in...

You're affirming the idea that a fictional world has no causal continuity apart from the decisions of its author. That lines up with the...

As many of you who have purchased it (thank you all!) know, the first large-ish release that PMG ever did was Spells from the Forgotten...

No one needs me to rant about skill challenges again. I was going to go get some representative samples of my point to link to, but then...

I spent years writing about the weakening of agency skill challenges represented, precisely because there are so few tools available for...

Sorry, you are correct. My mistake when typing it up. Thank you for spotting that.