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Which actually doesn't answer it, thus proving me right. No one said that. I have acknowledged that D&D doesn't come with much principles. This doesn't mean that it, and games similar to it, cannot be played in principled way. Like what the hell you think all this talk about binding prep is...

Mate. The bots are literally trained on porn and anything remotely female they make will become sexualised and scantily clad. (Granted, the same is true for many human artists.) Then they censor their own creations as they accidentally created risque content even though no one asked for it. You...

Also, at the point when human labour has been replaced with robots, who will be buying the products the robots make? Where will that money come from? Like sure, if we get some Star Trek style post scarcity scifi-socialistic utopia where people don't need to work for money, then I'm all for that...

How you get answers is not particularly vague. What is more vague though, how the information actually impacts the score. What also is unclear how the GM is supposed to generate these answers. Yes we did, and the conclusion, that you also tacitly admit here, was that the GM somehow decides.

That, BTW, is an interesting question. Because modern historians would say Augustus, but actual ancient Romans would probably say Julius Caesar. Not sure what a calculator would say though...

It is like how in Twenty Questions it matters when the answerer made up the correct answer. It is pretty obvious.

They can. There is no specific restraints for this. Notice how no one actually really addressed my specific examples of how it is determined what and how many obstacles are present? There is no concrete rules or guidelines for this, it is just up to GM. Also, gather information is rather...

Yes, absolutely it is! Like do you think that given the same initial position, different GMs wouldn't come up with different setup and complexity etc for the score? Of course they would, as there is nothing concrete in these instructions that binds them, it is just vague vibes. Now you're...

Less severe than what? Worse than what? There is no baseline, expect what the GM decided! But the GM framed the situation! It is not terribly common for unknown factors to affect the DC, though it can certainly happen. But most of the time I am open about DCs. And in rare cases there are...

So on what you base this randomisation? Would it be OK for the GM just say without a roll? Say no without a roll? Except this is definitely vague and subjective. Like there is no formula for this, it is just the GM making things up based on the general idea of the fiction. But you chose to...

At least to me that would still be "no." I used to work as a freelance illustrator (not for WotC.) Regardless of what the technical legality of the issue might be, (I would need to check the text of the old contracts,) I certainly did not imagine that what I was getting paid then was ushering...

I think you're just dancing around the actual issue. It is not really about what exactly the obstacles are, it is that the complexity of the situation and the number of obstacles the PCs will face is up to the GM. And same for deciding positions and complications and all that. The game relies of...

Is the warehouse outer wall directly next to the room where the vault is, or do the characters need to traverse through several rooms to get to it? How is this decided? What obstacles those rooms might have, if any? How is this decided? Are the valuables free to be taken once the vault is...

I know all this. Except it still amounts to "GM makes up how many obstacles you face based on same vague ideas based on the fiction" Which is exactly the sort of decision making you think it arbitrary GM fiat in trad games!

Yeah, that's fine. A lot of things are left up to the GM to decide organically based on situation in a lot of RPGs. I like and prefer that. But then let's recognise that the things that have most fundamental impact to the success of the score in Blades in the Dark relies on such decisions. I...

@hawkeyefan read my latest posts. I am not unaware of the principles in Blades you mention. They however do not remove the issue.

But how we determine how much one action declaration can accomplish? You probably wouldn't think "I sneak into Lord Darthmoor's mansion and steal all his valuables" would be just one roll, and on success the score is over with just that? How? Where are the rules, where is the formula...

Not so sure about the horse, I think it is twitching as we're getting into something concrete here. Yes, the score can be of any length. But how is the complexity of the fictional situation decided in the first place? It could be the engagement roll, but that's not what the rules actually say...

There are no clear principles in D&D, I admitted that pages ago. But I am not talking about D&D, I am talking about principled way of running sim-immersion traddish game. I mean "don't railroad" is pretty common principle a lot of GMs live by. I have read it, but a lot of it is terribly vague...

What would be a violation? Is it not the GM's job to decide position and effect? Is it not their job to frame situations and complications? It is not their job to decide how many obstacles there are in the score? Yes, using this power to railroad towards specific outcome might be bad faith...