Oh, Paul Beakley, this gets at something I think is crucial here: yeah, yeah, ambiguity, interpretability, whatever, the way that happens at the table relates to enjoyment as audience. Everyone else at the table, and likely the players themselves, want to express their audience-driven enjoyment by pointing to the subtext, by commenting on it, engaging with it. But maybe that’s not something you can do in the moment as actors. (I’m using audience and actor here not as jargon, just as normal [“normal”] words.)

You’ve ever had a director who tells you that you need to figure out what a given beat, scene, line, whatever means to your character, and then tells you not to tell them what you decide on, but to show it in your acting? It’s kinda like that.