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There was no "hope check". There was a roll to read the runes.

What got modified? When a player decides, say in the second session, that their PC's mother was a soldier in her youth, they are not...

And in the play of MHRP/Cortex+ Fantasy, everyone knows that when the GM narrates a Strange Runes scene distinction, the nature of the...

No. Is it much like Burning Wheel or Apocalypse World? This doesn't make Fiasco sound much like Burning Wheel or Apocalypse World. So...

What was the change? What did the runes say before the check was made?

Upthread, @Maxperson gave an example of a player saying their PC looked for a farrier in the village. And though Maxperson's notes...

I don't really see how this matters. Upthread, multiple posters - including you, I think, but maybe I'm wrong one that - described the...

If things are dramatic and move forward regardless of success and failure, then there is no reason for the players to prefer failure...

Nor does it in my example. The runes show a way out; but the character doesn't know that yet. The character tries to read them, hoping...

I am not using "backstory" to mean "character backstory". I'm using it to mean the background fiction.

OK? Perhaps you've missed it, but there have been many posts in this thread, from a variety of posters, asserting things like there is...

This seems to assume that nothing dramatic that "brings the story forward" will happen on a success, such that players who want such...

Situation: a problem or circumstance faced by the character.

I don't know why you don't acknowledge that I introduced the example as an illustration of a player's action declaration establishing...

It is talking about succeeding or failing on a roll. Also, there is an assumption in most of the posts on this thread that all that is...