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Indeed, this would seem to be precisely the opposite of "resembling reality" or "having the semblance of truth". Because good things...

This is especially important, if we're actually looking at how play works. It's obvious that many elements of the fiction, which must...

I understand "independent of the player". That's why I call the RPGing "GM-driven" or "GM-centred". I assert that, if the trigger for...

This makes no difference as to whether it is "quantum". Unless "quantum" now just means what some posters don't like.

But, you do. This is exactly the same process that you use. You choose to have an event occur (or rather the dice choose for you) and...

So it would be more realistic if bad things happened whether competent or incompetent people took the lead? That doesn't make much sense...

I'm just saying that D&D is not a very good simulationist game. That's why I GMed Rolemaster for 19 years.

Isn't it? If the roll succeeds, isn't the success in the fiction because the character was skilful?

Sure. But it doesn't make a large difference to whether or not it is "quantum". That doesn't depend upon why the roll is made.

Then you've not listened very hard. I'm referring to various serious 5e players. You'll see it, for instance, in this thread, post 16...

I'm not appealing to authority: I'm describing a fairly well-known RPG rulebook.

It's not true that the cook is "there and not there", any more than it's true that a monster who was authored as the result of a...

The cook was probably hiding in the long grass.

I don't know if my take is actually logical or even accepted interpretation. But it's satisfactory to me because it is an...

And there we have it perfectly laid out. The encounter is rolled FIRST. THEN the scene is created to make the encounter flow in the...