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The direct cause was a failed climb check. The crumbling rock was just fluff on why the climb check failed.

Okay, but that's not what I argued. I asked WHY the system has to be the one to the lifting in order for there to be verisimilitude...

There's no point because its obvious to me it can be viewed as a simulation because I do. But I'm not ever going to convince you so I...

Many games, including D&D, may have Sim or Narrativist-leaning mechanics in different parts of their rules, without being fundamentally...

First, they aren't probably moving about. Very few people are constantly roaming around the house at every minute of the day. They are...

Well, then we may have a different requirements for sim or we just mean different things or want different experiences. Maybe...

Then I guess I don't know what you're saying.

I'm looking for a game world that feels real, like my character is in a fantasy novel or movie. The game can do that, simulate that...

Simulations frequently gloss over details and the rules cannot fill in all the details for everything. You don't get to decide which...

The player hoping it was something dictated that it was the thing they hoped for because they succeeded. They shaped the world to what...

You want me to explain my feelings? If I don't feel the setting has a sense of independence from me the player, such that my ability to...

I view D&D from a sim perspective, pretty much every group I've played with the majority have. I don't recall people saying it's the...

The divide then is that I don't need, nor do I want the rules the rules to describe the fiction for much of what's going on. I need the...

That's a negative outcome of a failed check which is different from fail forward where you succeed at what you were attempting but with...

The GM is filling in details all the time, adding a ridge or other minor detail is nothing unusual. I might describe a beautiful sunset...