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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8256025" data-attributes="member: 42582">I haven't played BitD and don't know it well enough to answer your question in relation to it. In Apocalypse World and Dungeon World, the player can read a charged situation or discern realities and on a successful check is able to ask questions of the GM (eg who is in charge here? or what is the biggest danger here?) and the GM has to answer these "truthfully" ie in such a way as to establish fiction that is then honoured. The player receives a bonus if then acting on that information.In Cortex+ Heroic, to pick a quite different system, the player can declare an action that establishes an Asset which is a bonus die in the pool. In one of our sessions the scout PC climbed the steading wall to gain an Asset Overview of the Setting. I imagine that I narrated some stuff that he could see, but that is essentially colour - it will only matter in play if I spend Doom Pool dice to build it into a Scene Distinction or to add a bonus die to a NPC pool. (Unlike D&D, victory in Cortex+ Heroic doesn't depend on attrition and so it can be rational to use actions to build one's pool so as to enable a one-shot victory.)In Burning Wheel, the player needs an intent to his/her task: so if observing the guards some intention has to be stated, such as to see if there is a gap in their patrol route that I can exploit. "Anything useful" is in my view a bit to vague as an intent.This is what I would describe as finding out the content of the GM's notes. Or finding out the GM's conception of the fiction. I've played and GMed a fair bit of this sort of RPGing, though not so much in the past 15 or so years.</blockquote>

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