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You keep cutting stuff off. Because you're ignoring the biggest part of that check. The die roll. After all, I can overcome the DC...

Let me try this from a different direction. In Ironsworn (sorry to bring this up again, but, it fits my example well and ... well... I...

Sigh. You have a+4 climb check and a DC 15 climb. You roll a 10 and fail the climb. You do not fall, because you didn't fail by 5...

How so? In earlier D&D, if you failed a skill check, it's because you were not skilled enough to succeed. Full stop. That's why...

No. It simply makes the simulation more plausible for you. Me too actually. But, it doesn't make it more simulationist since the...

Correct. I have a second, DM-side version of the map with lots more info on it. This is one of those "fill in a blank spot on the map"...

But, you don't modify the difficulty or the roll in GURPS. Not typically. There might be extreme examples where you do it, but, the...

Schroedinger's treasure! Sorensen addresses this, in part at least, in principle 3: If the GM is also author, designer, and creator of...

WAHOO!!! Someone actually gets it. Now, tiny step here. How is a system that provides ZERO information about the causal process diegetic?

Yes, as the causal process needs to be diegetic as well.

No. They are not. Because if the climb mechanics are bound within the act of climbing, then the climb mechanics would provide some...

But, I was told, repeatedly in this thread, that that is not simulationist. That making things up on the spot - like the meaning of...

I don't consider the camera diegetic or non-diegetic because it is not concerned with the story being told in any meaningful sense...

That's not true. Any game which has mechanics which provide information as to how a result is achieved satsifies diegesis and any...

Sorry. Nope. That's not how they work. The DC is set by the skill of the character. Not by the task. It might be modified by the...