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Is it really all that surprising? The player who creates an elaborate 50-page backstory with everything nailed down is as real as the...

That's pretty much how countdowns work in Monster of the Week. Here's one from the Tome of Mysteries: They both would count as...

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

I've seen people get sticky about players defining, even fairly broadly, NPCs in the village their character grew up in. Its really...

So, "prep situations, not plots" is basically born from the same desire as sandbox play: namely, wanting to avoid railroading and...

Folks just so you know, bad logic bugs me even when my "team" uses it. I will point it out even if I agree with the overall position of...

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

Accepting for the sake of argument that the cases are distinct, I've been trying to understand just why? Many modes of play assign...

Agreed. This is what I was getting at with a previous comment about not enough weight being given to player idiosyncrasies, but you've...

Whilst I can understand your perspective here, it's been pointed out, more than once, that the illusionism from the GM is important to...

Of course, you cut off the rest of my text here. And note that the text is saying that they can be used live, not that they were...

I'm not sure that term is quite so appropriate. So, "OC"/"original character" comes from the community of people who create fan works...

While Warhammer Fantasy wasn't strictly the level of satire that 40k was, both were originally approached with tongue firmly in cheek...

Does this not rather imply that LARP is childish? Seems to me you are doing exactly what you are complaining about.