Recent content by EzekielRaiden

The conversation that is play. Like....that's literally how the game works. It is NOT simply "success on a search roll"--whatever that might be in a given system. I gave @Enrahim a breakdown of how it works in Dungeon World. Also? In nearly every possible game of this kind, this WOULDN'T be...

Well, more my point was that this is...a pretty easily foreseeable problem. As in, essentially every designer of a narrative game is going to see this possibility many miles away. Long before any books hit the table, designers will already know that absolute total freedom where ANY...

But this has nothing to do with @pemerton's objection? You're saying "you've been surprised". Of course. But that is irrelevant to the sequence in which the process occurs at the table. The manifesto claims that there cannot ever be any breakdown in time-sequence between events of play" (which...

Okay, finally here. So: the game I know is Dungeon World. In this post, I will not be talking about anything except Dungeon World. I have, technically, also played Masks some and a couple other PbtA games very minimally, and adjacent games like Ironsworn, but I'm not going to talk about them...

I thought you wanted answers regarding any possible such game, hence why I've avoided invoking any particular mechanics. Now that you have, I can easily do the example, but I took my sleep meds like 45 minutes ago and they've really kicked in now, so I'm afraid I will have to actually do that...

No. You need to say what system you're using. Surely you'd agree that the question "how much do I harm an enemy when I strike them?" would require that we know more about the system being used, rather than accusing anyone of requiring that the players "need to engage in basic game design in...

"Documents" is vague. Many entirely distinct things could all meet that description validly, e.g. receipts, letters, books, notes, pictures, all sorts of things. "Documents" are fungible. Any copy of a document qualifies, so there could be duplicates. "Documents" can be found piecemeal, where...

Precisely. A Swordmage is not "I am a physical combatant who happened to dabble in magic." Yet a Swordmage is also not "I am a magician who happened to dabble in physical combat." A Swordmage is someone for whom melee combat IS magic, and magic IS melee combat. (They may, of course, also have...

Then you cannot simply wish the ruby to be there simply because you know it's a safe and it's in the correct house. Because...people don't normally hide things in easily-accessible places? Because context matters? Play is a conversation. Sometimes that conversation is going to include context...

No, it isn't. I'm sorry, it's just not. I have no interest in continuing this conversation if this is the kind of pure-semantics nonsense you're going to engage in.

Opening a prison door so you can escape said prison is also a direct effect. There is no difference. It's quite rich seeing you accuse others of strawmen, when your own argument here IS A STRAWMAN as people have repeatedly told you.

No example I could ever give will ever satisfy. I already know this coming right out of the gate. There will always be some new flaw in it, some imperfection which will be used to ruin it completely. If you are willing to agree that no example can be absolutely perfect, I'm willing to attempt...

Perhaps you would do that. But that doesn't mean literally any benefit you could phrase in the English language is now open to you! Why would a player--for example--ever do anything "CvC", as you put it, when doing so is nearly always counterproductive in the long term and at least risking so...

And yet they demonstrably are. "I could not get the lock open, and the consequence was that I got rained on" is very clearly a straightforward causal relationship. The inability to open the lock is precisely why the rain had the opportunity to get you wet. "I didn't get the lock open" causally...

Is it the only safe in the house? Is it a particularly well-guarded safe, where one would expect particularly valuable things to be? Or perhaps very well-hidden, such that one would expect the contents to be more important than a safe just sitting out in the open in the drawing room? Or is it...