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Players do this routinely in all RPGs. A player, in D&D, who chooses to attack an Orc is taking their PC's life against the Orc's. No...

They don't. The PC chooses to read them, and learns what they say. They haven't changed depending on who reads them. If you mean the...

I guess I just don't live in one-second intervals.

Sure. This is no different from any other action declaration, at least where the GM is obliged to honour the outcome. Yes they did! They...

Well, first off… do you see what those little arrows are doing to the letters? They’re connecting them! If we look back, I was objecting...

The rules text is a bit of mess because it doesn't seem to want to commit to anything. Its resolution system is the worst offender...

In that case, I assume you can distinguish the following two things: *The character's reading of the runes causing the runes to be...

I learned it from the 4e rulebooks. Read the DMG's discussion of combat and non-combat encounters (especially skill challenges), and...

But obviously the GM in MHRP does not have exclusive control over the setting. Because if they did, then the example would make no sense!

Is this the sort of game you enjoy? No wonder you're not interested in Burning Wheel then!

What is the theft in the example of the runes?

What is the false equivalence? Why is hope to kill an Orc different from hope to find a way out?

Where is the answer to the test supposed to come from - the player? or a proper interpretation/application of the Tenets and Concitions...

4e D&D is replete with "narrative" leaning ideas. Here's an old thread about some of them: D&D 4E - Pemertonian Scene-Framing; A Good...

I was responding to your "requires". And as I posted way upthread when you said a similar thing, I disagree about "allows". It's pretty...