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I'm just a bit fed up with you (and other posters) misdescribing it. I mean, you say it's not hard to understand that it is not...

For me too. It is the game that Gygax and Arneson invented, and that Gygax developed. And that has been further developed in 4e D&D...

@clearstream may have a different reply to make from this one. But as I read @clearstream's posts, the point is quite simple: players...

“Mini-game”? RPGs may function without one, but it’s kind of hard to picture what D&D would be without one. The only issue that I can...

I'm surprised to hear you'd rule out the possibility of a cleric in say Tilverton (while it was extant), if one were not expressly...

The rune case has no "meta-decision". The player says "Maybe these runes will help us get unlost", and puts their dice pool together...

It seems hard to understand, because posters - eg @AlViking - keep posting that the character determined what the runes mean.

I don't see the point of this. In a D&D combat, the player - through rolling dice etc - contributes to a fiction in which an Orc is...

I know. You have made this quite clear. In the game I was playing, the character had not control over the meaning of the runes either...

I dunno - it's not that hard to find people posting about their dissatisfaction with their RPGing. But maybe they're not being sincere...

Suppose that the game is one based on GM-authored backstory. The player knows that the runes their PC reads were not actually written...

Setting aside that there is surely more than one cleric in many settlements, I assume exactly the constraints on clerics that the latest...

I didn't say it is. But it is part of playing a RPG. There is not the least difficulty in saying how MHRP works: *The PC is subject to...

On the contrary: you are ignoring the role of epistemic uncertainty, which makes the metaphysical aspect of the situation secondary...

As I have posted, I understand your assertion. I disagree with it. The fact that the player's action establishes backstory elements that...