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What I was trying to say is that the play techniques and play loops we commonly associate with D&D and similar games do an excellent job...

I feel like this has the goalpost sliding a little bit. For some of the people here, especially in this discussion, the style of...

And thus the exhausting, essential conservatism. There's no looking for a path towards realizing any sort of play goal, there's just...

By "we" you might mean "you". There is no such thing as "differently quantum". That just means "quantum that I don't like" as opposed to...

But this just brings us back to the commonplace observation that getting sprung and/or startling someone is not completely independent...

This is not correct. I mean, I learned to play BW from Revised. I only quote Gold because the text is available as a free download from...

Yes. The fact that D&D is so commonly used for a simulationist agenda (or play with no particular CA agenda that has simulationist...

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...

The thread up to this point has made it pretty clear that "quantum" is the enemy, whatever form it might take. But even if we grant...

I could be here (and am) or could be elsewhere (but am not), so am both here and not there? That doesn't make sense to me. I also don't...

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.

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...

It's starting to stand out as a fault line. It can seem weird to picture play in which at every moment players have at forefront of mind...

GMs having a mental model they develop and evaluate is only more like our moment-to-moment existence as long as we are dealing with...