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You can define "situation" that way if you like. I wasn't.

The character can know it: by reading the runes! They don't know in advance, but nor does the player. Both are hoping. Turning to AW...

I don't know BitD well enough to comment. AW, no. Because the GM does not "embody the setting" in AW. The players play a crucial role in...

This is why it's worth asking, why use resolution mechanics in the first place. What are they for? what's the fun of the game? The...

This is true - to the extent that it is - of all RPGing. I mean, it's all just "narrative dressing", that is, establishing shared...

I'm not sure where this stipulation of "fail forward" is coming from. "Fail forward" means that, on a failed roll/throw/check/test, the...

Which can be a trivial feature of a lottery: as I just posted, my friends and I can decide to raffle <X> among ourselves (where X is...

Yes, I know. But that's not relevant to the point I was making.

This is an empirical question about a given lottery. For instance, my friend and I can all agree to raffle off <this thing that one of...

This can't be known from the descriptions you gave. For example, why does the player describe their PC as having a bond with a...

The authoring of fiction in Narrativist play is quite structured, in general. For example in DW the 'blacksmith scenario' could proceed...

Yes. Given that there are - for practical purposes - infinite lotteries I can take part in, from the school raffle to the Italian...

Good call. I use this distinction all the time as a basic technique. One is very much in the vein of Apocalypse World where various...

Right, so 4e is of course a bit different from BW in that it's not specifically adjudicating intent at the level of a specific check. It...

I dunno, I'm a little bit surprised that it is the posters who profess to favour "simulationist" play that are making all these posts...