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Not quite. The DM brings the living part of the world in via rumors, events, etc. Also, the DM is a player, but not a Player. The...

"diegesis (adj diegetic) A term used in narratology (the study of narratives and narration) to designate the narrated events in a story...

DMs narrated slipping, crumbling rocks, etc. back then, too. And the percentile die to succeed is no different than a d20 to succeed...

Nothing in an RPG that includes players can't exist without the players. It MUST exist for the audience and the fiction or they aren't...

I like to think that but I can't help thinking now that I'm just in a version of The Truman Show being run by pixies thanks to @Maggan.

Why did the music mysteriously stop in the movie? We don't know and neither does the character. - Diegetic. All it takes is for both...

They're not rewriting anything. The GM said themselves the information isn't fully fleshed out, and the GM has final say on whether or...

How do we know this post was not written by pixies? ;)

It was in fact written by a close relative of the pixies........the pixels, natives of Pixar.

I climbed up a cliff, and it turns out on the top of the cliff was a cook the whole time, just cooking up weather.

This thread needs YOU to intractably disagree... ...if it is to make 2000 pages. I've done my part, have you?!

That's like saying the weather is caused by stepping outside your door. The idea of "simulationist" is there is always weather. The DM...

Technically it wouldn't be, because your life presumably isn't also happening in a fiction with you aware of it.

Because there is no requirement to know WHY it happened. Only that it happen entirely within the fiction, and that we the players can...

You don't have to know how the results were achieved. Like at all. In order to be diegetic, all that needs to happens is 1) the thing...