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See, but here's the problem. What do you do when the player rejects the DM's narrative. When the player finds the DM's post hoc...

Right, which is why suggestions of "cheating" or "get-out-of-jail-free cards" is irrelevant to this discussion. Something done...

Aren't you a proponent of abstraction? I take it, then, that you don't have @Maxperson's objection to the Cunning Expert PC build element.

IOW, you don't want simulationist mechanics. Why is that hard to admit? You want the simulation to come from the DM. Great. No...

Surely this only makes sense as a concern in terms of challenge base play? All play changes the narrative and the current state of the...

You are asserting that you can tell me how your rogue climbed the wall. But you can't! All you can say is that, because the rogue is a...

The GM calls for a WIS (Perception) check. The player fails, and so their PC fails to notice something. The GM narrates that as "While...

See, I generally prefer more simulation that D&D offers, which is one reason why I play and enjoy Burning Wheel and Torchbearer 2e...

Don't they? Then how do you explain Tomb of Horrors? Or if you want something more grounded: why wouldn't (say) a burial chamber have...

I made this same point upthread, in relation to Perception checks and surprise mechanics. The reason it doesn't get commented on is the...

Just to clarify, I don't see my example as something to like or dislike. Rather it poses a question: what in the core D&D game text...

This is a point I've been making on these boards for years now.

There is no divergence. The character wants to read the runes, having conjectured that they may reveal a way out, and hoping that they...

And? An 8th level fighter is able to beat Orcs because they're a good fighter. And they're a good fighter because they're a good...

"Justified by the fiction" here just seems to mean "authored by the GM" or "following more-or-less directly from something authored by...