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What does it mean to represent a chance? The PCs are travelling through <wherever>. It has a certain population density, and those...

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So you’d be okay with it if the players didn’t find it unimmersive? I didn’t say it didn’t apply to anyone else. Clearly, I intended...

I never said this applies to you. I said it’s something I’ve observed. You continue to read things into my posts that are not there...

I see other people have already pointed this out, so I apologise if this feels like dogpiling, but this is misrepresenting what...

No one said anything about being interrupted. The scenario was that the thief made enough noise while picking a lock that the cook heard...

Here's another well-known game procedure: the Gm asks the player something about the world, and the player answers. I expect that...

No. You can’t faithfully portray a character without some sort of metric to measure that portrayal against. “I’m faithfully portraying...

I meant a one-way relationship. There are obviously different methods to making the characters' lives not boring. One way just to have...

Not having an agenda of make the player characters' lives not boring is not the same as having an agenda of making the player...

Here is my perspective on this: I have done a lot of pretty hardcore simulationist RPGing. Mostly using RoleMaster, but also using...

Again, you are equating It is not the case that I have an agenda of making the characters' lives not boring with I have an agenda of...

The reason why the lock pick attempt might be louder on a failed roll is very simple; it’s because one way to fail at lockpicking would...

Pemerton already called this out, but you're committing a formal fallacy here, called "denying the antecedent." "P→Q" does not mean...

You are asserting that there is a town entails there is a farrier. But this is not true. Some towns, at some times, don't have farriers...