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Arguably from the sound of it, it just reverses the cause-and-effect process, but that sounds like it still has largely the same result.

Rolling the dice represents allowing the setting and its current state to make a decision involving risk and/or consequences. Since the...

Sure, but that's not what I suggested. I suggested that a big part of the reason for that is we're dealing with things we simply can't...

And I simply disagree. I think it very much represents those reasons.

I'm not denigrating it per se. I've just got two fairly big issues with it, but they're both from where I sit and don't expect them to...

To be fair to D&D and because this is germane to the debate, the bolded part is not how Sense Motive is written. Failing to make the...

And I think even decision procedure represent things. What they sometimes represent is "we don't really care but need to move on...

I'd also argue metacurrency in some of the mentioned games (FATE and Cortex) requires you to engage with the characters background and...

But what is it even representing as a procedure? Even game procedures are there for a purpose. I think if the players responded to it...

I'd accept that was the case about three cycles of discussion ago here. I don't think so at this point, however.

This just reads as a one-sided demand that the GM be a charismatic actor type with solid social skills to accomplishing that sort of...

Fair enough, but if a bad roll can be ignored, then there shouldn't be a roll at all.

No, I mean you don't believe its representing a real thing that has a real analog in the normal world. I think you've made it clear...

I've argued this should be something that is considered in virtually any system that has a randomizer in it (though in situations with...

If they've got a game that leans into traits that have run out of favor, they effectively have chosen an obscure game. After all...