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And from an in-fiction perspective the runes say whatever it is that they say. The two cases are thus identical. (Which is unsurprising...

I think that central to the RPG, in its most paradigmatic form, is two things: *Fiction matters to resolution; *Most of the...

So, you say that you play PbtA games. The only one I remember you actually mentioning is Monster of the Week, which as best I understand...

I think the lesson here is that sometimes when you google something, you should look at more than the first result.

So you think that AD&D thieves read runes using their nimbleness and stealth? "Cunning" does not mean simply "deceitful". It also...

From Gygax's PHB, p 18: "Thieves use cunning, nimbleness, and stealth." Just to be clear: are you saying that I'm wrong about the rules...

I'm just a bit fed up with you (and other posters) misdescribing it. I mean, you say it's not hard to understand that it is not...

I know. You have made this quite clear. In the game I was playing, the character had not control over the meaning of the runes either...

I didn't say it is. But it is part of playing a RPG. There is not the least difficulty in saying how MHRP works: *The PC is subject to...

To my observation the more specific a game text tries to get, the less able it is to cover a much wider range of situations. That's a...

I, too, used to enjoy suffering for my TTRPG art. :) Now I don't want to anymore.

Filling in the words in a Mad Lib is both "contributing to the fiction" and a railroad.

Exactly. Which is why I generally don't look for that sort of gameplay in the TTRPG space, and scratch that itch with boardgames and...

Interesting! I actually have somewhat opposite preference regarding characters (though weak). I tend to like "avatar" type characters...