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But I was told, repeatedly, by several people in this thread that it cannot be illusionism. That that would be a violation of the trust...

Why do we need to go through all of that rigmarole? We already have a roll. It already tells us something went wrong. And, again, it's...

Food would not be delivered by the cook(s) regardless. It would either be carried up to the person in their private rooms by their...

The boundary between "I'm an expert" and "I know more than you" in presentation is blurry and often dependent on the relative confidence...

Yeah, it is surprising. For the same reason that the GM needs to come up with stuff on the fly… because you can’t come up with...

I'm actually happy with players creating backstory and whatnot dynamically during play in order to relate to stuff that is happening...

Sure. I just expect that there's no game that has it all done before play. The players don't have every detail about their characters...

I was thinking of a case where the group goes through their old village in the course of the game, and suddenly who and what their...

See this is the kind of thing I have come to expect (in my own games) to come up quite a bit during play. The idea that a player would...

I don't think that RAW comments on how loud a failed lock pick attempt is versus a successful one. I think that's more in the "rulings...

I disagree. Had the player declared that the PC do some different thing, then this roll would not have happened. It's entirely diegetic...

So, stuff that has not been established (if a cook is around close by) can neither be diegetic or not. The characters making noise...

Depending on the household, certainly. The cook may well not be involved in serving the food at all, that may well be the job of other...

I've seen people get sticky about players defining, even fairly broadly, NPCs in the village their character grew up in. Its really...

So you're basically saying that a character making a diegetic statement about the campaign setting that already hasn't been introduced...