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In MHRP, by default the Doom Pool is simply an opposition dice pool. So the most immediate consequence of failing an action is wasting...

Only in form, not in effect on play. That said, I recollect Investigate and Arcana determining things that hadn't yet been settled (or...

There is a bit of switching back and forth among posters between what is happening in the game as such and their forms in the imagined...

@AnotherGuy pointed out that the runes through being settled in play could turn out to have a variety of features. Whereas the stone...

No. No more than you, as a GM writing up a dungeon description, are "changing the reality" of the imaginary world you are writing about...

Have you read this post from over a month ago?

Well, If someone claim they don't like narrative games due to this difference: (Go on to claim something noone likes, and that is not...

Surely the character's decision can be "I'm in a pickle and I conjecture there's a chance those runes might help me find a way out"...

The example shows that there are parallels between determining what the runes could indicate, and determining what an NPC does. It...

Would it be the same game if the player(s) is leaving?

This isn't accurate. There is all the information the player, and their PC, has about the dungeon. There is the fact that the PC is...

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...