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Then I would say a more accurate term, which clearly applies to one and not the other, was being used.

Or to put my thoughts another way. There’s a fundamental difference in an elaborate cooperative process to decide ‘who done it’ in the...

It’s so different I would hesitate to call them by the same name. One is more like emulating the fiction of solving a mystery. The other...

My point about running a mystery with Hillfolk was meant to address this point. The information about the mystery didn’t exist until a...

Right. One thing I’m currently thinking about is the criticism of around lack of player knowledge in non narrativism games. But...

IMO on mysteries I suppose that to me what makes one real and the other less real is that if the game were to end prematurely could the...

Thanks. Let me take a step back then since I obviously misunderstood you. Instead of asking what if real means having the illusion of...

It didn’t sound like it did in your post? So you tell me. It sounded like you were originally only applying ‘having the illusion of...

Anyways. @hawkeyefan You are being ganged up on a bit and that’s never fun. So I’m going to let others say their piece for now. I’ll...

What if ‘real’ here means - ‘having the illusion of cause and effect’?

No one is saying they exist for real in the real world. They are saying they have theoretical measurement. They have objective details...

This sounds to me like just another example of ‘mechanics don’t matter’. And here I thought one of the overarching points of...

And this is always kind of the point when we talk about something's 'realness' or objectivity in a setting. None of us think the thing...

Yet if it fails because of GM generated fiction, you think agency is undermined? I think your way of looking this is illogical. To me it...

Yes there is an actual mystery to solve. No one is saying it exists in the real world. But the details of the mystery are established...