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The player just played their character. "Look, there's some weird runes over there. We've been stuck down in the dungeon for a while...

What does necessity have to do with it? Not everyone who plays RPGs wants to engage in nothing but map-and-key play. It's not some...

I'm not talking about preferences. I'm talking about accurate description. I mean, if I said that I find your game silly because in...

To me, it's not evident, given that multiple posters keep asserting what is false, namely, that the character caused the runes to mean...

If I walk into a tavern and describe, in-character, an NPC in the tavern without waiting for the DM to narrate what the NPC looks like...

I'd say also their cognitive state (using that phrase loosely, to encompass imagining X as well as believing X, conjecturing X, etc)...

The contents of a player's imaginings are of course imaginary (by definition). But the act of imagining is a real thing. What's real...

Obviously they don't. What makes you think I haven't worked that out? So you really are incapable of understanding play using methods...

In MHRP specialities are chosen from a list. Distinctions are free descriptors. The specialties in my Fantasy Hack are: Acrobatics...

The limitation is that the DM and Player have discussed this phrase beforehand, and have come to an understanding of the extent of its...

The player didn't change the state of the fictional world. The fictional world was in a constant state - there were runes before the PC...

Obviously those are not the only possibilities. How do you know? What is the character seeing? What does the character know, from their...

@Lanefan clearly doesn't.

Given that what you call a "quibble" is fundamental to any coherent discussion of imaginary things then yes, I am "quibbling" about it...

Huh? What is confusing about this: Maybe you're not familiar with the class D&D thief tropes? My table is.