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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 9635408" data-attributes="member: 6696971">There are a lot of posts I want to get to, respond to, and I want to (again) clarify Blades in the Dark procedures because they are being absolutely butchered in this thread.But I don't have time for that right now. What I do have time for is to demonstrate that the game theoretical model you've proposed above just doesn't work.  Here is how we do it.* You and I are having a fight.* There is a referee.* The referee says "anything goes, gentlemen." * Great.  I can gouge out your eyes, bite off your nose, choke you to unconsciousness, dislocate your knee/ankle.  You have to defend against all attacks.* You, on the other hand, have secretly sworn an oath in your mind that you will neither gouge my eyes nor bite off my nose nor choke me into unconsciousness. * I have no idea about this oath.* Hence, we are both playing very different games from each other...but I don't even know it.  So my approach to defending, to distance control, to area control, and to striking and grappling is still erroneously incorporating the information set I was working on initially.  Further, you've handicapped yourself from several, extremely effective and high-stakes attacks...but only you are aware of this handicap.* Because of my information-set disparity, I'm playing a different game than you.  * Because of your self-imposed moveset-handicap, you are playing a different game than me.* These features have fundamentally reshaped the gamefulness of our play, both reducing it and simultaneously distorting it.  Whatever integrity the execution of the blow-by-blow of the fight had, its ability to generate legitimate results, and any betting had before your secret decision have been significantly reduced...I would say outright thwarted.</blockquote>

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