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Your argument is built on a blatantly false analogy, an intentional rejection of the very simple idea that "the map is not the...

The character is experiencing climbing, Max. They are not experiencing dice rolling or modifier checking or arithmetic. Just like how...

I certainly think that this is very good for a feeling of groundedness. But, generally speaking, one does not get a bird's-eye view of...

Sure they can. Their simulation simply cannot be diegetic. Which should not be that surprising. Navigating across a map is inherently...

Exactly. They take a scene we know could happen, and give us a way of removing ambiguity without merely declaring what happens...

Suppose the game text for climbing were excised from D&D. I would nevertheless be quite able to imagine my character climbing in the...

Let me rephrase. Made diegetic in a way that simulationist players would accept. I had taken it as given that, since this conversation...

Ultimately all simulation involves doing things that aren't identical to their subject.

In TTRPG, players are (also) the audience. That simplifies things because it means that if the actor knows it, the audience knows it.

Sure it can. As noted: diegetic music. You are hearing it. Your assumption is that you're hearing it and the characters are not. But...

There’s something foundational here that tends to go unexamined: not why campaigns end early, but why the game assumes they should run...

I think this is what is referenced: https://rpgmuseum.fandom.com/wiki/Czege_Principle Has been discussed earlier in the thread, but...

Neither. You offered a physical prop to help the player visualize. The prop cannot be diegetic because it isn't actually the map, it's a...

I'd say there are probably five...let's call them "strains" of play, which loosely fit across an arc. You have what I would call...

I don’t have any actual data, but my personal experience was that the longest* D&D campaign I’ve ever participated in was a 4e game. We...