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That reminds me. I forgot to make a concentration save. 😊

Nor does it necessarily not correspond. You're assuming that when you call the player using their knowledge "metagaming". I have always in this thread been talking about knowledge acquired by a player through gameplay. In my first post I talked about an encounter with a dragon of a particular...

Yeah, I had a sense of this when posting and originally wrote "begins swimming" but opted for the more immediate "swims to the far shore." I didn't intend a reading that implied that he actually reached the shore, though, so I think I'll edit it to the earlier wording.

Terrin wishes for the healing counsel of his deity to benefit his two companions in crossing the creek, but knowing there isn't time for a careful crossing and that they both have their own gifts to aid them, he utters a few harsh sounding words, seeking his Lady's advice, and brings his empty...

I disagree that kobolds have evolved, considering both Drak and Alrune are attested "dragon-type" names for certain kobolds in German folklore due to their association with the mandrake. I would rather kobolds, along with other goblinoids, orcs, etc., be depicted as having a strong association...

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Terrin is unsure of the loyalty of a former rival of Imani, but he has no time for mistrust. "I accept your help and will follow you to your hiding place," he says to the elf, quietly, "but we are not your captors. Your freedom is yours to do with as you choose. If you help us, it may avert a...

It's a possibility, yes, but you've been posting as if it's a preordained certainty in all cases that characters have no knowledge of dragons whatsoever to justify your accusations that a player who uses information about dragons acquired in gameplay is a filthy metagamer. It's stomach turning...

How was it established the character was previously unaware of and had no opportunity to acquire information about dragons? Do you play through every moment of the character's life from birth in excruciating detail?

Player knowledge doesn't preclude character knowledge. It's just orthogonal, as is your tangent about metagaming.

No, not really. Why wouldn't characters know anything about dragons?

Player skill, when the DM plunks down a dragon mini painted (or describes a dragon of) a particular color, players with the experience will know what type of breath weapon to expect.

I'm curious about this possibility with regard to conflict resolution. Even though it honors the failure result of the roll (i.e. it "cares" about intent), it also "breaks" the relationship between task and intent which Vincent Baker, in his twenty year old blog post, says conflict resolution...

This sounds like it doesn't so much give the GM in BW and TB2e authority over genre and/or fictional positioning, and so might not come up in response to the "shoot the moon" example, as it encourages the GM to communicate with the players when they risk butting up against whatever planned...

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Not wanting to waste any more time and concerned the drow may seek his freedom whether the idol is recovered or not, Terrin runs to the grate, drops down, and continues down the tunnel to join Stryke. Terrin takes the Dash action and moves as far down the tunnel as possible.

Okay, I think I was a bit confused because you said hitting the tree with a thrown rock (the task/approach) is trivially easy and wouldn't require a roll. By that, I understood you to mean the task would automatically succeed, no roll required, and it does appear that you are having the rock hit...

No, my understanding of systems that use that principle, like Burning Wheel in which it is phrased as "Roll the dice or say, 'yes'", for an action declaration to be permissible, it needs to pass the following two tests, both of which are decided (informally) by table consensus: a) it has to be...

I'd say without a doubt.