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And, just to point out one of the reasons why I favor this sort of 'consequence resolution' is that ACTUAL game situations are so...

Well, I think you could have pretty much any of the kinds of Apocalypse you speak of. I mean, maybe Humanity has a collective...

Yeah, I'm getting on my actual PC where I can type (ah, the joy of Model-M keyboards!), so lets see if I can be a bit more cogent: You...

Yeah, I have very little to say about whatever sorts of play go on in different groups. I'm not there. I played games that sound similar...

Given that the setting is established, especially at crucial moments and in crucial respects, by the players answering questions - about...

Yet you keep posting...

Here's how I look at this "real life agency" thing. In real life I make some choices. But some things are thrust upon me. To mention a...

@AlViking Not connected in the deterministic way some people might prefer and not connected in any way whatsoever are very different...

Yes, as I posted already upthread, the issue is that it is high stakes. Though not only that: if I as GM had rolled on my Strange Runes...

@JConstantine In almost every game with a GM that I am aware of (Hillfolk being the notable exception) the GM retains backstory and...

Do you really need one? Okay. If you fail a test, is that all that happens? When I was 16, I asked a pretty girl to go out with me...

No one disputes that RPGing involves setting. (Except perhaps in some very marginal and/or avant garde instances.) @AbdulAlhazred is...

No, this is you reading something into what I actually posted that’s not there. @Lanefan claimed that his preferred method works the...

Of course he did. But he wasn't making a "hope roll". The player of a PC in D&D who rolls an attack hopes that the attack will defeat...

At the table it was not fixed. In the fiction it had been fixed ever since the runes were written. They could, and they did. Similarly...