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I will note that this is just preference, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with play that has a higher metagame index. It's no...

Kind of related to all of this, I sometimes practice what's called lucid dreaming. If you're unfamiliar with the practice, it's when...

Something I found interesting about @Hussar's viewpoint is that it seemed formalist. Formalism says that the game is only played if it...

Ok, but let's be clear on where the objection flows from. This has nothing to do with the fiction as fiction. This is an aesthetic...

I want to pull out this example, because I think it is even more clear than the cook one and comes from actual play. I get what you are...

I tried to explain a while back how long ago I would unwittingly break that sense of verisimilitude by using what I call OTAs...

That makes no sense. A complication is a complication, even if someone fixes it quickly and easily because they are skilled. Something...

I don't agree with that premise. Why must the system tell me why the climb check failed for it to seem real(have verisimilitude)? If...

Ok, this is a good start. But, I think you are missing the point of why we're choosing this example. It's illustrating an extreme case...

I get your point, but I don't think it is true. I don't see why the simulation has to simulate something at that level of detail to be...

I don't feel compelled to jump to extremes like this. Play is messy. In my #14,054 I spelt out that "I do not take "simulationism" to...

So your issue is that the GM can make decisions about the world the characters exist in? Describe the terrain they're passing through...

I, and my players, have never had any real issue with imagining what is going on. Why should the game rules tell us why or how we fail...

Wow! I think you just accurately described why D&D is the best system I have found for me so far <3

Let’s focus on this aspect. How is the GM deciding the orcs are sneaking? Presumably he accounts from the already existing fiction...