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This, to me, is a MUCH more interesting conversation and gets to the heart of things. Because, from where I'm standing, it almost looks...

Who is making this claim, in relation to players and their play of their PCs? And what are their examples of it (either RPG texts that...

Says who? The GM does not have unilateral authority over the shared fiction.

This is hugely controversial. I wouldn't play at a table where a GM asserts this sort of power. I mean, even as...

Similar to my other post, isn't proposing they can climb a wall or force a trapdoor open going to benefit the player that proposed it...

White Plume Mountain. Castle Amber. Against the Slave Lords. In all these modules, and as far as I know in the modules that WotC is...

In my example players took parallel actions, required parallel abilities and skills, and had identical chances of success. Can you help...

It's not an obvious solve-this-puzzle situation. There's no puzzle. There's five of us sitting around a table (if I'm remembering...

From the perspective of an external observer, there is no "most likely" meaning of the runes. That's like asking a reader of LotR, who...

Did you not read any of my posts in which I said that this is not a game about solving puzzles or overcoming GM-authored challenges so...

I have dug down, and have offered a diagnosis. You apparently reject it because it's "sanctimonious". But anyway, here are two...

Sure. But I'm not the poster you need to take that up with!

But you can see why I have a problem calling that simulationist right? How is your example any different than magic pixies? That's the...

We learn that the character did not observe the thing... And then, only AFTER knowing that the character did not observe the thing, we...

Whereas to me, the skill mechanics don't tell you anything. We have no idea why you succeeded or failed. And the fact that you can...