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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 know this is the major topic discussed right now. So I think I might be really missing the point. But "How is a system ... diegetic"...

Falling. Pixies. Just about anything that doesn't involve the PC's skill not being sufficient to make progress. The roll is by RAW...

Ask the Oracle is generally used as a tool to support the simulation. The questions are assumed to be limited to what could be...

As always I dread to discuss immersion, but this whole thing feels like a diversion from arguing that player and character decision...

Indeed. See my second mode - where the characters is the game.

Now I think I remember the context in which I would have myself argued the runes example would be at odds with simulation. At that point...

Depends on the game. In modern D&D, absolutely. But I think even some of the earliest more story focused play might have stumbled into...

Yes? Such such play described there wouldn't match the mode described in my post? And so what? I didn't use the word sandbox once in...

Just to make it clear: I really do not think these two are the only "stable" modes of RPG play. I however found them interesting to put...

I think that is to broad to be directly useful for the analysis I was looking for. But I think this gave me something to work with to...

I cannot talk for @clearstream . I think I am engaged in several layers of this. - On the level of game I have expressed strong...

I think this puts word to a central concept I have been circling around myself. To what extent is the character the game? I now...

To me it is far more verisimilitudious that way. D&D classes are weirdly specific packages of capabilities. To me that makes more sense...

Let me give you an example of a good player. I had detailed a pantheon of God in my campaign world. One player chose to be a cleric of...