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Yet is has been done! And it worked.

Why do we need to go through all of that rigmarole? We already have a roll. It already tells us something went wrong. And, again, it's...

Yeah, it is surprising. For the same reason that the GM needs to come up with stuff on the fly… because you can’t come up with...

I'm actually happy with players creating backstory and whatnot dynamically during play in order to relate to stuff that is happening...

See this is the kind of thing I have come to expect (in my own games) to come up quite a bit during play. The idea that a player would...

I've got no issue with how you did this in your game. But you also post stuff like this: And you use this sort of thing to criticise...

AFAIK the psychic maelstrom ONLY effects things through the interpretation of the characters, as described by the players. While it...

I don't think that RAW comments on how loud a failed lock pick attempt is versus a successful one. I think that's more in the "rulings...

Sure. Who is disagreeing with that? I am saying that neither is more or less "quantum". They both involve authoring here and now...

Where does the rulebook say that the player has to follow the GM's direction here? And where does the rulebook say that the GM gets to...

But it's hardly a criticism of Burning Wheel, or Apocalypse World, or Marvel Heroic RP, that these are not particularly well-suited for...

I disagree. Had the player declared that the PC do some different thing, then this roll would not have happened. It's entirely diegetic...

So, stuff that has not been established (if a cook is around close by) can neither be diegetic or not. The characters making noise...

I wasn't talking about restaurant or hotel or theatre reservations. I was talking about establishing fiction in a RPG. Forgetting to...

So you're basically saying that a character making a diegetic statement about the campaign setting that already hasn't been introduced...