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Not every playstyle places primary emphasis on scene-framing.

Yes, there can be several causally possible outcomes. This doesn't mean there is no causality. And now you have found out what we have...

In other words, the fiction needs to conform to the rules of the challenge, making this a rules first rather than fiction first process...

Yes you have. Thus demonstrating that there is an expected causality between fictional things, and if you significantly deviate from it...

Perhaps, but some of them were suggested as possible contributors by the person who came up with the example. But why would the...

A man kicks a ball. The ball moves. There was no man, nor a ball, just text, but you might have imagined a man and a ball. And the...

My play typically consists of a world map. NPCs and factions are often linked to specific locations on the map. However, their location...

According to everyone who wanted get rid of species ASIs that +2 was the difference between a perfectly playable character and...

Okay. I thought the +2 would have given it away, but fair enough. Mattering more meaning the fictional action in the specific...

In some cases those are covered by the double jeopardy principle. In others, the world. For example, why does the guard patrol change...

The post I was quoting was about resolving obstacles, not generating them. When I am resolving obstacles, I do so as an observer--my...

The pedantry is acting like the former doesn’t imply the later ‘A lot of thinking and discussion about the play of RPGs seems to default...

The fiction evolves causally due the actions of the characters. The mechanics merely represent this. This is different than the GM...

So, the giants did indeed have concrete predetermined motivations. The players did put forward logical counters. The maths was skewed in...

the more broadly you want to define skill challenge the more case based the criticisms of it are going to be. 4e skill challenges were...