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I denied what you said. You said " hence there was a causal relationship between character hope and meaning of runes that did not have...

Says who? Where is this definition found? is it some new bit of jargon?

I'm not sure what the "one" is - do you mean the impersonal third person? Anyway, what prompts the player to declare an action is the...

Why would it be? Or to put it another way: why would the character assume things are not possible - unless the player is in author...

I'm not sure where "map" is coming from. There's been ample discussion, upthread, of the many ways that runes might reveal a way out...

None of this is true. Actor stance requires what it say: that the action is declared drawing on the mental states of the character...

Gygax explains it in his DMG, p 20: This ability assumes that the longuage is, in fact, one which the thief has encountered sometime in...

Every RPG player has the ability to "shape the fictional reality" (= contribute to the authoring of a fiction). As far as "decision...

As I asked upthread, are you really incapable of cognitively grasping anyone's approach to RPGing other than your own? EDIT: Apparently...

I know this is probably bad form, but, if you wanted a clearer example of the conservativism of D&D fans, just look at the reaction to...

If the player has no intent other than to see what the GM says about the setting, then why are we comparing that to an action...

There is no such causal connection. Imaginary things don't have real causal relations - that's part of what follows from them being...

No one but me has posted the rules for my Fantasy Hack of MHRP. The specialities were invented by me, based on an integration of the...

No. I told you what the word "Cunning" means. That's all. The word cunning includes shrewdness, keen insight, craftiness etc. And I...

I don't claim that they are the same. But neither is an event that occurs in the fiction. They are things that happen at the table, in...