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I've come to believe you can't evaluate agency, in the sense of gameplay, without explaining the goal and the evaluation of victory...

It's hard to see how player nominating what the runes will mean on success results in less agency for that player than GM nominating it...

It's the sort of perspective I characterised as formalist earlier: the notion that the meaningful game play comes from mechanics and not...

Probably because the player's action itself wasn't the driving force, it was the die result, so it's more mechanics/system-driven.

I'm not sure citing persons who self-identified simulationists reject as having mischaracterised their playstyle is a particularly good...

I think this shows a similar idiosyncrasy to mine with roll-under. There's acknowledgement that it's not born of logic, but...

I think the contention stems from the fact that not only in their view should players affect the world in a Watsonian/diegetic manner...

I’m not sure what you mean here. I think I’m pointing out that the specifics of the example can place the crumbling rocks either above...

Sure, but in that case he probably isn’t having you fall on a failed athletics check either.

On the crumbling rocks… Consider what’s been established. The pc is climbing a rocky cliff. A failed climb check need not mean you...

The direct cause was a failed climb check. The crumbling rock was just fluff on why the climb check failed.

Cliff - DC 15, unstable rocks. Fixed. On a 1-in-6 chance, a guard is present. Fixed. A cook may or may not be present, depending on...

The rock is pre-established and is there whether they climb or not.

Many games, including D&D, may have Sim or Narrativist-leaning mechanics in different parts of their rules, without being fundamentally...

I don't think "simulationism" is the best term for what people are looking for in fixed world play. People didn't like...