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Have you ever played billiards? You know, hit the white ball with a cue trying to hit another ball into a pocket, called pool in the...

Problem with the runes example was not that it was made up on the spot. If the GM had decided on the spot before any roll was made what...

I keep missing it because it's 100% wrong. They do absolutely provide some information on how the result was achieved The rules dictate...

Yes they do. They work by drawing the odds of success by comparing the skill of the climber to the difficulty of the climb, thus we know...

Why would I be unhappy that there is a problem if I use a definition that you, and you alone, use? Unless, once again, you can show...

This seems to come down to a simple question of whether diegetics can survive being put through the strainer of the abstractions we need...

Yes, as the causal process needs to be diegetic as well.

That means it is set by the task! In GURPS you modify the skill by the difficulty of the task. Same than in RQ. This is calculating the...

Given that it seems pretty safe assumption that no one thinks that mechanics are concretely part of the fiction so that the characters...

You guys keep bringing up, "The character can't see the mechanic" as some sort of proof that mechanics are not diegetic. I would point...

The mechanics BECOME the action, because without them there is no action.

The problem is that people are trying to look at RPGs like they are movies when they are not. Aristotle identified mimesis and...

I don't accept your reasoning because if I did then no TTRPG I can imagine could be considered simulationist and the word has no meaning.

If I show a picture of an NPC to the players it is just a mechanism used to convey information to the players instead of just a verbal...

As Sorensen says "When the dragon reaches 0 HP and dies, it does not die because it reached 0 HP: it dies because it has suffered so...