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But is your assertion that this action declaration can't be resolved in MHRP. Why not? What are the character's Milestones? What is the...
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Your second statement seems perfectly fine to me. You're laying out a possible fail state instead of a success state. The fact that...
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Because I don't know what RPG you have in mind, I don't really know how to respond. But in MHRP, for instance, if Character A...
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Because? I've only read a bit of the early Hulk comics, but neither Bruce Banner nor Hulk is particularly passive as a character. Both...
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I posted the PC sheet upthread. Here it is again: Even for someone not familiar with the details of the MHRP system, I would think...
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Good thing there isn't, then. Glad I could help you out, since you seemed extremely confused. Again, I have no idea what you're...
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OK? Depending on further details, I'm not sure what is stopping you playing that character. Or maybe with those further details, it...
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This is getting increasingly bizarre. I told you what the Cunning specialty covers: I don't remember anyone at my trouble finding this...
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And again, the fact that the mechanical resolution method takes player intent and character modifiers into account INSTEAD OF being a...
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Here's an example of author stance play in MHRP/Cortex+ Fantasy Hack: The player of the berserker wants to earn XP, and so declares the...
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I still don't know what you mean by "author stance" or "actor stance" as you are not using them in the only sense I'm familiar with...
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You've completely made up this "one true path" nonsense. I don't know what you're on about.
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In any RPG, the fiction is likely to contain interesting and salient things. Otherwise play would be very boring! As I've already...
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My "counter argument" is that your description of an "incentive structure" is not borne out in play. If your play is yielding...
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