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TBH I like @Gimby's proposal that through placing the runes historically the character realizes the layout will follow a formal pattern...

I like the notion of making this distinction, yet am still left wondering why player A and character A hope an action (study the runes)...

And here we have exactly what I was talking about. The players can either accept the DM's narration or they can leave the game...

Fair enough. But, just to be clear, while I have used "Pixies" as the go to example, it's not really meant to be exactly that. My...

By telling all the other participants that I (as my PC) am picking my nose, and getting them to agree. If all the players agree that my...

The game was deliberately emulating/evoking ideas from classic D&D: eg Castle Amber, Tomb of Horrors etc. But as @clearstream, @Gimby...

I love this. It's why I don't play RPGs where player decision-making is very heavily shaped by metagame considerations like "finding the...

No. There is a denial that there is some asserted "disconnect".. I've posted clearly, throughout this thread, what the principal...

A simulation of a stop-motion world, where rogues can evade fireballs while never moving from the space they are standing in?

As I posted not very far upthread: You only get a "conflict with sim" if you insist that the player is not allowed to introduce or...

Odds don't measure causality. They measure likelihoods, correlations etc. I already posted an example upthread: Einstein doesn't cause...

If the gap is 6 inches, then jumping the gap does automatically happen. Likewise if the tower has a ladder up its side; or if the goblin...

That is a good framing. I'll leave the MHRP case to others, to focus on D&D. In formulating my example upthread, I had in mind a more...

Marvel Heroic RP. The "strange runes" example is an episode of play from a fantasy variant of that system (inspired by the Hacker's...

In MHRP, Trapdoor to Sigil would be an asset, with a die rating. It is no more or less powerful, mechanically, than any other asset. I...