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I'm sure it is, but this is the sort of mechanic I loathe, especially if it is prominent part of the game. It robs my agency over the things I find most important and compelling to decide as player in a roleplaying game. There obviously are things players can decide in this sort of game, but...

This is the sort of game where I would just hand the dice and character sheet to the GM so they can randomly autoplay my character and I would walk away and go do something where my input is actually needed.

Yes, I ma quite familiar with that paragraph. It quite clearly illustrates the vagueness of myth in Blades compared to more trad approach. But like the prep in trad game this "cloud of potential" is also mainly created by the GM, and it is the GM who chooses what about it to actualise. But they...

How?

Yes, I agree. Same with writing. It was interesting when it produced weirdness no human would. Now it just produces unimaginative cliche dullness.

Could you stop conflating objectivity with authenticity? At this point of the thread it is not possible to be genuinely confused about what "real mystery" referred to.

Sure, they are not always at odds. Now playing "optimally" might lead to boring gameplay, and that is one thing, but it goes beyond that. I think the sort of "the character tries to win, so the player tries to win" you describe works better in a game where the rules are simulationistic in a way...

It is a real difference. But I don't accept that self-imposed constraints are not constants. They are. Transparency will makes things different but I don't think "make GM accountable" really is an important difference. It matters only if you don't trust GM to run the game in principled way...

Survival, success of character goals etc. I get what you're saying, and I too think narrativism probably works better if you are not trying to "win" and instead just want to see what happens. But I think it is pretty common for people to internalise the character's goals, and thus achieving them...

Currently the issue is that the AI might insert facts from someone's Lady Silvehand/Elminster fan fiction to it, and then just hallucinate some other details.

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...