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So simulation is whatever we declare it to be. The principle of explosion destroys all conclusions by making literally everything true...

You're not quite getting my point. It's not that it has to simulate reality. It's that a simulation has to simulate something...

How can one say one is putting simulation as the primary process, when one explicitly invites or includes components that are...

And being stealthy when you pick a lock is thus definitely never relevant whatsoever, no matter what, under any circumstances? Pull the...

Which is a lovely description, and a non-sequitur. The person I was responding to declared a bright line, a line in the sand: GMs (of...

Then you are still employing it. It still matters, it still affects the roll. Sure, it doesn't affect the specific number in a direct...

Not particularly? Hit points, saving throws, heck even to-hit rolls (including the everpresent 1-in-20 chance to crit) have been there...

This does not seem to comport with what as being said; as noted, the imagined world was allowed to not have precedence if genre...

Is that actually true? I don't grant that it is. Like I genuinely seriously do not grant this claim. "Complications" that you can't...

But you contrasted it against the GM's roll, by describing how it removes uncertainty! Both things resolve uncertainty. Both things...

I guess I don't understand why the guard is related, but the cook isn't. Both are people inside/around the house who could be a peril...

... How on earth is the picking-a-lock roll not resolving uncertainty????? That literally does not answer the question. What does...

Then what on earth does "being a simulation" even MEAN? Because at this point you've reduced it to little more than "doing what I like...

Why would it be different if the player had rolled a specific result, and as a result you knew there would be terrain or a situation...

So DMs never factor in, for example, the party's stealthiness for what results might come up on a wandering monster roll? I can...