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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...

You may wish to review this post and those leading up to it: D&D General - [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

Nothing is being "changed".

I don't understand your obsession with exit signs, which to the best of my knowledge are a modern invention. There are very many ways that writing can reveal information about a way out. I've posted some examples in this thread. So have @clearstream and @Gimby. Gimby and I both referenced some...

The only meaning of those terms that I'm familiar with is [URL='http://www.indie-rpgs.com/articles/4/this one[/url]: In Actor stance, a person determines a character's decisions and actions using only knowledge and perceptions that the character would have. In Author stance, a person determines...

I make it up! It's not hard. The players aren't drawing a map. If they want their PCs to make a map, they could do that by using a Specialty to create an appropriate Resource, which would then contribute a die to the dice pool for appropriate actions.

I think that central to the RPG, in its most paradigmatic form, is two things: *Fiction matters to resolution; *Most of the participants (that is, the players) engage with the fiction from the position/perspective of one particular person within the fiction (their player character). The first...

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 is a pretty traditional game in its play structure, but that uses some AW-esque mechanics. So I don't know if you use the AW technique of "asking questions...

So you think that AD&D thieves read runes using their nimbleness and stealth? "Cunning" does not mean simply "deceitful". It also implies cleverness and shrewdness. From Merriam-Webster: crafty in the use of special resources (such as skill or knowledge) or in attaining an end . . ...

Here's a post where you talked to another posters about 3E Wildshape. They used a spreadsheet, and you seemed to understand why they did it. Power Attack in 3E also invites the use of a spreadsheet, especially to optimise damage against a given AC:

@clearstream is identifying a difference similar to the one between these two ways of getting a chip from a friend: *A friend comes to visit you at your house, and brings a bag of chips as a gift for you the host. *A friend is eating some chips from a bag, and you ask if you can have one, and...

I assume you don't mean this literally, because while reading runes to find out if they show the way out is a thing the PC can do, of course the player isn't reading any runes - they're just imaginary. Similarly, a PC might fight an Orc with a sword, but what the player does is roll dice and...

I don't know what RPG you are describing here. But this is not something that I have experienced in GMing Burning Wheel, Torchbearer 2e, Prince Valiant, Marvel Heroic RP (or my Fantasy Hack of it), Agon, 4e D&D or any other RPG that gets labelled "narrative". I don't see how it would come up in...

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 of my own fantasy hack of MHRP? or are you just complaining about my use of the word "Cunning"?

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 map-and-key, GM-authority-over-backstory based. And then you say that the character "manipulated reality" and talk about "quantum runes". It's doubly frustrating...

For me too. It is the game that Gygax and Arneson invented, and that Gygax developed. And that has been further developed in 4e D&D. It's not and has never purported to be a "process simulation" game. Gygax's PHB and even moreso his DMG is full of essays of apology and explanation for the...