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This basically says that he's able to make reasonable conjectures because he's able to make reasonable conjectures.

Yes. What is not the same is the causality. Why you keep ignoring this? I absolutely do not understand why you always champion...

Unlike previous editions, particularly 3e, I find that the game holds together fairly well at all levels, even up to 20th. The casters...

I've gone to level 20 in 5.14 and the changes were pretty minute in overall feel. Yes, the casters get incredible utility that other...

I don't think it's valid to conclude that the vast majority of groups don't go above 7th level. As was pointed out you can play twice as...

I didn't care for @clearstream's example either. It doesn't make it better that you could do the same thing in D&D. It doesn't matter...

You can make something that sounds similar in D&D, that does not make them the same. First, in pemerton's example if the check had been...

I don’t think I agree but let’s assume I’m wrong for a moment. At best all this does is show d&d can be played in a larger variety of...

Differences abound. 1) the significance of the details being ‘filled in’. For example - What the runes mean is a huge detail whereas...

That's not the issue. I think @Enrahim just explained it better. It feels like the player was allowed to cheat, the runes being...

I think you are laying out the case well if we indeed had been looking at the player mailing a decission about what outcome they...

The fact that this was promoted as a good example of how the game works is, I think the main issue. In most narrative games that I've...

I don't think anyone is arguing that there are not other games that lean more into simulation. Meanwhile I'm primarily concerned about...

I suspect he's arguing with people for whom it is important that they're kidding themselves. I think that's a bad way to argue, but...

This differs from my view of simulation. My basic English answer would be, when we put into the things we know about, it will output...