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Quite a way upthread, I asked you why you seem unable or unwilling to talk about RPGing done in accordance with different principles to...
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Well, what you posted that I responded to was this: "My main issue with the runes example is creating the meaning of the runes by the...
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In my persuasion example, the player must decide what they want the priest to do on a successful roll.
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Can you say how having a curse removed is a lesser impact on the world than finding your way out? What I had in mind was similar impact...
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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...
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Only in form, not in effect on play. That said, I recollect Investigate and Arcana determining things that hadn't yet been settled (or...
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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...
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@AnotherGuy pointed out that the runes through being settled in play could turn out to have a variety of features. Whereas the stone...
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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...
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Have you read this post from over a month ago?
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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...
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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"...
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The example shows that there are parallels between determining what the runes could indicate, and determining what an NPC does. It...
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Would it be the same game if the player(s) is leaving?
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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...
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