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This example would only have been relevant if somehow you on success the grass had to be short. The entire problem is arising when the...

Who said it"suddenly becomes long" I would never describe its length at all unless asked. It would always be long, but described as a...

EDIT: This post analysed Burning Wheel Revised Edition. This is older than Gold edition. It turns out gold edition is very similar to...

For like the umpteenth time, there is no teleportation or quantum involved with wandering monsters. None. These are all monsters that...

Seems a reasonable enough action declaration in any game. The difference in a more traditional game being that it's the DM who...

I think the out here is that the GM is the ultimate autorithy on the Ob, and indeed the feasibility of the check. You likely can not...

So what you say is that this won't stop until trad players are accurately describing nar play, and nar players are accurately describing...

I think you are purposfully twisting "made up for the pc" here. While it technically is true in the everyday meaning of these words...

That's fine. I disagree, and I think there is a clear difference with bundling that roll into the player's roll--and your language, 'let...

Have you met this group? :P

No. That's wrong. The hex had whatever was there the entire time. The DM just doesn't have the time or energy to detail out the...

No. For just about every roll someone in the group will have a high stat + proficiency(often expertise) which gives them greater than...

But the PC does not have the ability to just decide that another person is there.

This is Burning Wheel? What about RM and MotW? How much control over the fiction do those players have beyond the ability of their PCs?

How much control do players have over aspects of each game beyond the ability of their PCs? No need for quotes from the rulebooks or...