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Here I was more referring to the idea that if metacurrency creates a particular result, you can present that in an artificial and...

I think maybe there is a lot being lost here, dunno where you got any of that. Let's recap. You wanted an example of how metacurrency...

I think it depends how you think of them. You could think of them as spending extra effort. As a real-world example, when I would fight...

This is not even remotely true....like not even close. From series to series, sometimes even from comic to comic, we see the Hulk or...

Yeah, I've GMed it quite a bit - of MHRP and also my various fantasy hacks. I like spending 2d12 from the Doom Pool and making the...

Kane (and KEW in general) is mentioned as one of the sources in Ron Edward's Sorcerer & Sword (the supplement for Sorcerer), and I...

I’m sure there are some people that would accept methods other than those caused by magic in the setting. But I think it’s a very common...

I'd go so far as to say that it's either the player or it's just an auton or script. This hypothetical internal model suggests that all...

This is why, upthread, I wondered about Goading Attack and Menacing attack:

You don't need immersion to play a role; that's the core distinction between a lot of our perspectives. Fitting a mechanical prompt...

Baker talks about this in the blog post that I linked to.

Heaven forbid we have any power fantasy in our games where we pretend to be fierce warriors and arcane conjurors

Right. I mean, I think I was pretty clear in my post: I didn't say anything about what people can or can't choose, but about what they...

The question is not 'could choose'. The question is 'will choose'.

When you say 'they' and 'them' here I don't know whether you mean the character or the player. The character does not exist and so...