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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...

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

That is an argument against the mechanism and not the plausibility. Remember my original quote said I probably agree overall with the...

What Harper says only establishes an "ought" on the premise that it is accepted as true. It's not self-grouding. Furthermore, as I've...

There is no difference between "confirming" and "making it up". I mean, any other GM in your position might have decided to use the...

First, encounter rolls are very often not rolled in advance. I have nearly always rolled them in the moment. Second, none of these goes...

First, encounter rolls are very often not rolled in advance. I have nearly always rolled them in the moment. Second, none of these goes...

There is a "diegetic" reason: it's a kitchen, it has a cook in it, the cook is startled by a burglar. That's as "diegetic" as the...

Well, for me... I had asked you about your random encounter process oh a hundred pages back or so, and you never really answered...

And the reply was that this is true for all RPGing - there are elements of the shared fiction, and events in the shared fiction, that...

Bingo!

So question on this: would you think a Seek Insight/Discern Realities (I forget, are you familiar with Dungeon world?) roll where the...