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But in a rules discussion that’s about bot doing things the way they’ve always been done, I would expect homebrewing to be a big factor...

But by definition, simply by having any backstory at all, the player does this. Immersion damaged from the outset. Note this is not a...

I never said this applies to you. I said it’s something I’ve observed. You continue to read things into my posts that are not there...

No one wants their players to be bored. That's not what Make the players' characters' lives not boring is addressing. As @Campbell...

Here is the post that prompted this discussion of "faithful" portrayal of character: Do you two, and @Maxperson, think that I'm wrong...

Not wild at all. You can obviously roleplay however you want. But you can't call it a faithful portrayal without being able to...

Burning Wheel has a "no retry" rule - called Let It Ride. Torchbearer has a similar rule called Fun Once. By "fail with no retry" do...

Touchy much? I never said anyone is childish except some hypothetical person who can't play with others. And I am going by a metric...

Maybe you missed this post:

No one said anything about being interrupted. The scenario was that the thief made enough noise while picking a lock that the cook heard...

As I already posted:

Well, I've seen a lot, and my sense of it is that if a player uses backstory authority to, say, grant their character power and...

No. You can’t faithfully portray a character without some sort of metric to measure that portrayal against. “I’m faithfully portraying...

I was asking how this is done in conjunction with fidelity to the setting.

I understand that you don't like it. I don't understand how it is more, or uniquely, "quantum".