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Which is why I assign odds and roll half the time.Why not all the time? Because dice are idiots and roll enough times on a random table...

The actions of the PCs have when they roleplay are too numerous. As a result the referee doesn’t have level of certainty about outcomes...

Sounds good. I am pretty much the same except I never do inner thoughts. I do describe body language when it would be obvious along with...

Method acting honed through 15 years of roleplaying in larps event as part of staff like NERO, Although I don’t need to live as the...

I don’t know the outcome. The PCs are involved. It’s that simple. If they weren’t involved, say the party is in Blackmarsh and...

Putnam may have moved away from internal realism because he was concerned with how we know truths about the real world. But that doesn’t...

Constructivism says, “If we follow the rules, like rolling the dice or spending a token, whatever happens is valid,” while internal...

I leave it for the readers of this thread to decide.

You’re basically saying that because I made the setting, everything I do is just my opinion, that nothing I decide can be fair or...

We’ve gone over this before—my earlier posts lay out the procedural differences clearly enough for anyone interested. No need to...

You’re admitting both outcomes are plausible, so picking one doesn’t break world logic, it follows from it. That’s the contradiction...

I don’t agree, but I understand where you’re coming from. This is the same type of issue I mentioned upthread about Poussinist vs...

Sure, why not? The history of the creative arts is full of debates over this kind of tension. Take the classic example of the...

Appreciate the compliment. I still have work to do, but interestingly enough, the comments in this thread, from everyone involved...

I’m concerned with both sets of goals. Read what I actually wrote before asking a loaded question. Every system has creative goals and...