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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9697446" data-attributes="member: 42582">But how are those details, of where the PC learned things, established. And how do you create the character's memories? Does the player decide what the PC remembers about religious matters? Or does the GM? If the latter, is this a departure from the principle that "The GM controls the world, the player controls the PC"?And so why does the Apocalypse World human ears example count as a departure from "the GM controls the world"? Or the strange runes example?If "control" is not being used literally in one case, why must it be used literally in the other case?Not obvious at all, because I don't know what either bit of jargon means. I don't see how having things hinge on a GM decision in response to a wandering monster check is different from having it hinge on a GM decision in response to a player's roll is different from having it hinge on a GM's decision in response to a player's question, as far as "quantum" goes.I mean, if you wanted to say that the GM's roll for wandering monsters is different from the other two, because no player is involved, OK.Or if you wanted to say that the roll for wandering monsters and the skill check are different from the third example, because the latter is an extrapolative decision with no roll involved, OK.But I don't know what it is that you are saying is supposed to make the first and third "not quantum" (for the GM and/or player) whereas the second one is.</blockquote>

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