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I seem to have played and GMed more Burning Wheel, Torchbearer and Marvel Heroic RP/Cortex+ Heroic than any other poster in this thread...

Nor did the character in my game.

No. That's just wrong. There is no "reversal of causality". There is the use of dice to track other correlations. Eg the...

Apologies if I mistook what you were saying. It seemed like you were raising a worry that what player said would he unconstrained. I'm...

Hopefully you will recollect the arguments in this thread that GMs can be free to author without authoring egregiously. Do you now...

Really? I don't think @Lanefan gets that the episode of play, involving the runes, was not from map-and-key based, puzzle-solving play...

Why should that sort of reaching be any more valid for the runes? I'm not sure it is right to suppose that anything at all can be...

This is different from MHRP, but closer to how I might do something like this in 4e D&D.

Let say I were to use this in my game So, Has anything been established in play about who passed through here/who built this...

Personally I think it's the opposite. If climbs were rated like spell levels, such that a PC with a given STR (Athletics) bonus or...

I think we have to be practical here, the player may also not determine the runes give them mad-xyz. The xyz would have to be measured...

Quite a way upthread, I asked you why you seem unable or unwilling to talk about RPGing done in accordance with different principles to...

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...

In my persuasion example, the player must decide what they want the priest to do on a successful roll.

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...