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Ok, so I (mostly) agree with pretty much everything you've written here*, especially these parts: "The GM doesn’t own the PCs." "It...

Nothing you’ve quoted here contradicts anything I’ve said. It fully supports my point.

Perhaps the people who keep asserting that inadvertently startling a cook is "completely unrelated" to a failed attempt at burglary:

Oh, I’m not surprised by that at all. I’ve never played that way, even in the AD&D days. Sometimes you have to discuss things as players...

I was watching a show recently where A had put a drug into B's drink, as part of a conspiracy with C and D. But B then didn't want to...

So is fighting. So is climbing. So is being an impressive and charismatic performer. None of these are processes that are much like the...

Of course the suggestion is intelligible. @hawkeyefan gave an example from actual play of 5e D&D. I've given examples from actual play...

Sure...unless you just haven't been persuaded by the right person, in the right circumstance. Imagining it as a white-room scenario...

Wanting sole authorship of the character you play's inner world, emotions and the like is fine preference to have. So is a shared...

You choose to play the RPG that includes that rule.

Hmm . . . this reminds me of several posts upthread asserting that in my MHRP-derived Cortex+ Heroic Fantasy game, the PC caused the...

The very first 2 pages of Dungeon World tell everyone exactly what the game is about. The first couple of sections make it pretty clear...

Read the book for yourself and then at least your opinion will have weight. I don’t think anyone has said that. I know what I’ve...

This is one of those areas where we need to be mindful of the not pulling isolated text out of the context of the game. Apocalypse World...

This is like saying, if all I write is fantasy, then why would I read examples of non-fantasy fiction? It seems obvious to me that...