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They are the person who introduced the term to RPG analysis. Though as I already said, I don’t think their ideas are without flaw, I...
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I don't find her arguments completely compelling, but I don't think that's her intention. She's arguing that the numerical...
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No, the character is not experiencing both. The character explicitly does not experience non-diegetic things. Saying they do makes the...
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Right, it's mostly used for sound, but it can be applied to other aspects of film, too (I think it's most useful for sound). I think...
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Hang on though. IN order to have a "highly detailed situation", you would need to do lots of preparation, no? I've been told...
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I wasn't talking about the film Arachnophobia, though. I was talking about a GM having prepped their material, and their prep doesn't...
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What definition? That the audience needs to be able to know what the characters in the story know? That's the definition of diegetic...
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I didn't miss it. I have read that, and the Wikipedia page that I linked to not far upthread, and also things like the following, from...
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Examples would help here, because I'm not sure if the things you're thinking of are the things I'm thinking of; but I don't think I...
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Thanks! To build on it: is the use of the reaction roll to establish backstory seen as a concession to playability, or a good/creative...
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No. The mechanic is not our experience. Period. It is not in any way the thing in your head being imagined. It is a pointer. An...
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According to Wikipedia, Diegesis (Greek διήγησις "narration") and mimesis (Greek μίμησις "imitation") have been contrasted since...
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The term comes from film, right? Specifically about sound that is heard by both the characters and the audience, rather than just the...
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Two thoughts -- This first may be a quibble, but the fictional world is not diegetic -- it is the diegesis. Things strictly within...
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Which ones? When I Google "diegetic definition", I get Oxford Languages telling me: (of sound in a film, television programme, etc.)...
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