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Wikipedia: Diegetic music, also called source music, is music that is part of the fictional world portrayed in a narrative (such as a...

That's unfortunate. I was always a popular DM when running public games because people knew it wouldn't be a cakewalk. Some of my most...

I'm not sure how the thread got on this tangent, but about AL, I will say, during my stint as a DM for AL, despite the fact that it's...

I take playing a TTRPG to entail becoming author, actor and audience. Player as actor makes themselves part of the fiction. They make...

The rune example was not even that though, as the skill was irrelevant, the character was going to read the runes anyway, the only thing...

Anything that happens in the fiction and is only in the fiction is diegetic. If the minor character exists in the fiction they are...

This is also the case for multiple resistance or vulnerability in Level Up.

Rules Glossary "Resistance is applied only once to an instance of damage." Playing the Game "Multiple instances of Resistance or...

If you're using the 2014 rules, it's in Chapter 9: Combat - Damage and Healing - Damage Resistance and Vulnerability "Multiple...

I agree with you. It cannot be a requirement that if something only exists in the narrative and not external to the work, then it is not...

But then that would mean that diegetic has no meaning because in any fiction, there is an author of the fiction. Probably no...

The widespread view in this thread appears to be that, of necessity, those episodes of play could not be or involve simulationism...

You should have read further. This is also from Oxford. (adj diegetic) A term used in narratology (the study of narratives and...

Which ones? When I Google "diegetic definition", I get Oxford Languages telling me: (of sound in a film, television programme, etc.)...

No. What's surprising is just how much complaining there is about GM-led games, and GMs in general.