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I'm not sure where "map" is coming from. There's been ample discussion, upthread, of the many ways that runes might reveal a way out. Gandalf identified the Chamber of Mazarbul, and then was able to work out the way out. Without ever finding a map. As for the other epistemic states, the player...

None of this is true. Actor stance requires what it say: that the action is declared drawing on the mental states of the character, rather than for some other reason to which the player then retrofits the PC's mental states. Here, the reason the action is declared is because the character...

Gygax explains it in his DMG, p 20: This ability assumes that the longuage is, in fact, one which the thief has encountered sometime in the past. . . . Even if able to read a language, the thief should be allowed only to get about that percentage of the meaning of what is written as his or her...

Every RPG player has the ability to "shape the fictional reality" (= contribute to the authoring of a fiction). As far as "decision space" is concerned, maybe you're using that in some jargonistic sense that I'm not familiar with? The decision I am talking about is the player's decision to have...

As I asked upthread, are you really incapable of cognitively grasping anyone's approach to RPGing other than your own? EDIT: Apparently the answer is "yes".

If the player has no intent other than to see what the GM says about the setting, then why are we comparing that to an action declaration that prompts the GM to narrate something? Of course, in your example perhaps the player prompts the GM to narrate the existence of a temple!

There is no such causal connection. Imaginary things don't have real causal relations - that's part of what follows from them being imaginary. Anything that has real causal relations is, in virtue of that fact, not imaginary. The player's idea about their PC's action has causal potency, of...

No one but me has posted the rules for my Fantasy Hack of MHRP. The specialities were invented by me, based on an integration of the MHRP specialties and the 4e D&D skill list, plus my own sense of D&D-esque fantasy flavour. Gee, if only I'd posted this before: Actually., I think this is the...

No. I told you what the word "Cunning" means. That's all. The word cunning includes shrewdness, keen insight, craftiness etc. And I also told you what Cunning Expert pertains to: "In a game that is deliberately playing on classic D&D tropes, Cunning includes the thief's traditional ability to...

I don't claim that they are the same. But neither is an event that occurs in the fiction. They are things that happen at the table, in order to generate fiction. But everyone knows that the PC is going to the temple to find a cleric! That's the whole point of the example. If the character is...

I thought that in D&D I could use a skill when it makes sense in a situation. Anything else would be pretty odd, wouldn't it? This suggests that you're not familiar with how naming things works. As I alluded to upthread, the magic-user can't use all magic. The spell "Guidance" doesn't actually...

So, upthread I asked this: And so you really are telling me that I'm wrong about the rules of my own fantasy hack of MHRP! Don't you think that might be overreaching a little bit? Do you think this post, from me, is relevant to understanding how a game that you only know about from me telling...

Everyone knows that thieves were god PCs in classic D&D! I mean, does it get any more overpowered than a 17th level thief having a better than 100% chance to pick pockets?

That's how it looks to me!

Also, my ostensible inability to draw the logical connection that the character is making the runes mean <this> rather than <that>.

If the GM tells the player they are authoring, the player then knows that their action declaration prompted the GM to author something. I don't see how that is structurally different from the action declaration leading to a dice roll that then prompts everyone to agree that something has been...

My objection to "quantum" is that it is never applied to the myriad "quantum" things that those who deploy it as rhetorical device include in their own play - quantum clerics, quantum farriers, quantum sharp rocks, quantum crumbling rocks, quantum etc. I don't think that any of the posters who...

Sure. That's why I always play magic-users in classic D&D, too, because there's no magic that they can't use! (It's all in the name, after all.) Alternatively: as I already posted, the Cunning specialty is intended to capture a good chunk of classic thief abilities. You are the one who is...

You posted "You surely not saying that the players author the entire world by asking the GM to run a game for them?" And my point is that no, @clearstream is not saying that.

And from an in-fiction perspective the runes say whatever it is that they say. The two cases are thus identical. (Which is unsurprising - that will be true for all non-absurd RPGs, and the only absurd RPGs I know off the top of my head are Toon, and Over the Edge though the latter is more subtle...