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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6112331" data-attributes="member: 4937">In each case, a dangerous lunatic.  There is a very big difference between asserting, "I will be king someday", and asserting, "I'm the king now."  I mean, "I will be king someday" was itself enough to unhinge MacBeth, but "I'm the king now." when you aren't is already unhinged.   Likewise there is a very big difference between leaving up in the air whether the character will in the course of play obtain the throne, and leaving up in the air whether the basic facts of the characters backstory are actually dangerous delusions.   I would expect most players in most systems to understand that the former is true, but I'm rather skeptical that players even of BW are open eyed accepting of the idea that everything in their backstory is in an indeterminate state and could in fact be a delusion (whether it is something like 'I'm the true King' or 'I grew up on the isle of Crete' or 'I've been a fishermen these past seven years').I don't think I would subvert a player's backstory without player permission.That seems to be rather far from what was quoted to me:I'm a computer scientist.  There is a very big difference between asserting that the answer to the question of a beliefs factuality could be 'true' or it could 'false', and asserting that it must always be 'null'.   I have one quote that seems to suggest 'true or false'.   Can you back up the assertion of 'always null'?</blockquote>

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