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Really? The player doesn't (in 3E) pull out their Power Attack spreadsheet? Or (in any version of the game) check that the cleric has...

The player can't "dictate reality". They can contribute to a shared fiction. That's called playing a RPG. You seem to be thinking of...

Performing mental arithmetic, and working out what fiction is dictated by feeding those numbers into the rules engine, is not the same...

Yes. The player is playing a RPG. As part of that, the player authored some fiction. That's what happens when someone plays a RPG! The...

The player authors a fiction. The character discovers a reality. How is that hard?

Yes they do.

From the post where I introduced the example: If you haven't read the example, or noted that the action declaration is about reducing or...

You posted "The players is, if I successfully interpret these runes what do I want them to mean (given whatever constraints are in the...

Yes, but also, that's beside the point; in D&D clerics can change their spells with a long rest (or the characters could have sought a...

Yet you have managed to say some sensible things about how it plays!

No, but @pemerton was playing a fantasy hack of MHRP. In a more standard game., the condition or situation would be more genre...

There'd be vanishingly few TTRPG mechanics that could validate that their sensitivities to modelled factors and distribution of their...

So, as I posted, this was a fantasy hack. In MHRP played literally as superheroes, something like Power-Dampening Collar might be more...

I agree.

You don’t think a GM having predetermined as much as possible ahead of play is nudging things? I’ve only played MHRP a couple of...