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I don't accept your reasoning because if I did then no TTRPG I can imagine could be considered simulationist and the word has no meaning.

I don't see that changing anything. If that mechanic exists, you still can't climb without it, making it a part of the fictional climb...

The problem is that people are trying to look at RPGs like they are movies when they are not. Aristotle identified mimesis and...

I believe it can fit TTRPGs using the simple formula "things that players can pretend their characters know". To me that doesn't matter...

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

So according to you, the guy who wrote a manifesto on what simulationism is has restrictions so strict that any game that claims to be...

By the strictest definition, even what the viewer sees on the screen isn’t actually diegetic unless it’s filmed completely first person...

Because the authorship of the novel occurs in the real world and depends on the author there then the resulting fiction was not...

How? A novel is dependent on its author. that’s how you would simulate a fictional world independent of the players.

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...

Once again, since you missed it when you read the Oxford site and apparently again when I quoted it directly to you, "diegesis (adj...

So it happens without the audience? It seems to me that the audience being required makes it an element. Without the audience to...

The thing being imagined doesn't happen without it. You can imagine a successful or failed climb check until you are blue in the face...

Creating a simulation isn’t authoring fiction it’s creating a simulation. Let’s say I as dm create a dungeon with certain inhabitants...

1) by fictional meanings I simply mean meaning within the fiction. 2) not all fiction requires an author (individual or committee)...