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<blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 7247667" data-attributes="member: 71699"><p>As an interesting digression, I would argue that fiction doesn't contain certainty and uncertainty: what the author deems happens, happens. That is because fiction presents only an illusion of systems and causality. So the only events in fiction that are uncertain are those the author deems uncertain. Or in a game, those assigned die rolls.</p><p></p><p>Of course, we tend to apply a plausibility bar - did this crazy thing happen that we felt was totally improbable? - but that varies from person to person. I feel like I have learned that it often rests on the framing each person has in place. Say with judging a spell as it is being cast? The PHB seems to me clear that all casters use the weave, but that each applies their own technique. So my framing says that there could be enough differences <em>and</em> enough similarities, that a check based on Arcana or Religion (i.e. relevant knowledge) makes sense. But what if I thought that each spell was strictly rote? Then I'd probably say that a check was out of place - a fireball is cast the same way, no matter who does the casting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="clearstream, post: 7247667, member: 71699"] As an interesting digression, I would argue that fiction doesn't contain certainty and uncertainty: what the author deems happens, happens. That is because fiction presents only an illusion of systems and causality. So the only events in fiction that are uncertain are those the author deems uncertain. Or in a game, those assigned die rolls. Of course, we tend to apply a plausibility bar - did this crazy thing happen that we felt was totally improbable? - but that varies from person to person. I feel like I have learned that it often rests on the framing each person has in place. Say with judging a spell as it is being cast? The PHB seems to me clear that all casters use the weave, but that each applies their own technique. So my framing says that there could be enough differences [I]and[/I] enough similarities, that a check based on Arcana or Religion (i.e. relevant knowledge) makes sense. But what if I thought that each spell was strictly rote? Then I'd probably say that a check was out of place - a fireball is cast the same way, no matter who does the casting. [/QUOTE]
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