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How do you know that? First… you’re making the same mistake as @AlViking above. You’re assuming you know what would have happened on a...

"I did badly enough at singing that made an awful caterwauling somewhere near where a guard was and now he's come to investigate? I...

No. You're taking the existing fiction "We are on a mission to find the Desert Rose" and taking a giant steaming dump on it. You are...

And I am saying that you are clearly using the social contract of any game that allows player authorship for toilet paper. And if you...

I'm not talking to @hawkeyefan, though.

But all those things could be attributed to the punch in the eye. If the guy who hot the windshield is in recovery after plastic...

Yes, I have done that just to drive home the idea of events being related and how we’d view them outside of a game. I’ve asked for...

How come you don’t apply the same logic to the failed lockpick check? Why does the player’s suggestion simply prompt you to consider if...

Necessary conditions aren't causes.

There is nothing "illogical" about a guard approaching a singing person. There is nothing "non-diegetic" about a guard approaching a...

I didn't say it's the cause. I said it's a necessary condition. I'm following Mackie here, in treating causes as being insufficient but...

I'm not sure it's that strange. The posters who object to connecting the consequence to a player-side dice roll take it for granted that...

Just to step in, I'd add one in circumstances where it was appropriate to the game and style I was running the game in. To illustrate...

"Very probably"? hahahah come on man. Also, force and cause are not synonyms. You're shifting the argument hear. I didn't say you...

No. I didn't say that. I said that it could. Here's an actual example: D&D does not care about the nature of injury suffered when a...