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I thought that in D&D I could use a skill when it makes sense in a situation. Anything else would be pretty odd, wouldn't it? This...

So, upthread I asked this: And so you really are telling me that I'm wrong about the rules of my own fantasy hack of MHRP! Don't you...

Everyone knows that thieves were god PCs in classic D&D! I mean, does it get any more overpowered than a 17th level thief having a...

That's how it looks to me!

And you know this how?

Also, my ostensible inability to draw the logical connection that the character is making the runes mean <this> rather than <that>.

If the GM tells the player they are authoring, the player then knows that their action declaration prompted the GM to author something...

My objection to "quantum" is that it is never applied to the myriad "quantum" things that those who deploy it as rhetorical device...

Sure. That's why I always play magic-users in classic D&D, too, because there's no magic that they can't use! (It's all in the name...

You posted "You surely not saying that the players author the entire world by asking the GM to run a game for them?" And my point is...

And from an in-fiction perspective the runes say whatever it is that they say. The two cases are thus identical. (Which is unsurprising...

You may wish to review this post and those leading up to it: D&D General - [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

Well it’s certainly enough to work for an RPG. I just don’t think it’s a simulation. “It’s kind of like this” isn’t really putting in...

Nothing is being "changed".

I think you’ve just described the issue with the word “simulation” as it applies to RPGs. I think that when we talk about something...