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So... It's okay to leave important elements of the world undefined until after a roll is made when doing so is convenient? But it's...

I don't see how this makes any difference. In my Cortex+ Fantasy game, the player decides that their PC attempts to read the runes...

Play in which the GM embodies the setting, and the GM sets player goals, seems to me to be obviously GM-driven/GM-centred in a way that...

I think you are reading too much weight here into relatively informal ways of speaking. Or imposing your own formal meanings onto those...

No. What I'm saying is, in both cases, you are inventing a new fact about the world that wasn't present before. Just in one of them...

What's the difference between those things? Like seriously. In practice, what's the difference? Because as far as I can tell, "you put...

In the fiction it seems to me that there is a causal link, in that but for the hope of getting to the top the character wouldn't have...

You don't need to conjecture - @Hussar has been explicit. He has said that GM's fills in the fictional details that the mechanics don't...

Doesn't it? My experience doesn't really bear this out: players (again, in my experience) like to riff on, build on and interact with...

@Hussar has not said anything about what counts as game play. And has not really expressed any serious view as to what counts as a rule...

In mainstream D&D, if you hope for your PC to climb the cliff, and you then succeed at your roll, your hope comes true: the fiction now...

Agreed. Right! The players' actions don't matter, because all they do is change or add to the shared fiction. To truly matter, they must...

Well, my point was that players don’t often change the fiction without involving their characters. Change meaning the fiction is A, and...

No he didn't. But very few posters in this thread, or on ENW, follow Tuovinen'sa (or Edward's) usage when they talk about...

I think it's funny how multiple posters who have attacked the cook and have repeatedly insisted they aren't interested in hearing how a...