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Wrong. We are discussing based on the assumption that 1) this is D&D, and 2) there are climb rules, and 3) this is a situation that's...

It kinda sorta is. It's not something the characters in the fiction can see, or even divine, but if the act in the fiction literally...

More False Equivalence from you. A map is not intricately intertwined with the territory such that the territory cannot exist without...

He is experiencing both, because they are one and the same in an RPG with climb mechanics. No mechanics, no climb. Yes mechanics, yes...

You guys keep bringing up, "The character can't see the mechanic" as some sort of proof that mechanics are not diegetic. I would point...

I would argue that they are always weakly simulationist. Even when they are "plot armor," they are not just plot armor, but rather...

The mechanics BECOME the action, because without them there is no action.

I don't see that changing anything. If that mechanic exists, you still can't climb without it, making it a part of the fictional climb...

I don't see how that changes anything. Yes the player is also the actor, but neither are the character in the fiction. Just because the...

The problem is that people are trying to look at RPGs like they are movies when they are not. Aristotle identified mimesis and...

Not me. A simulation simulates a process that occurs in real life. I would(probably) recognize someone I met a long time ago, so a...

You can't see how knowing how far up a PC has climbed before failing and falling relates to failure? The mechanic of the climb check...

Establishing something as diegetic or not. Diegesis cannot happen without the audience, so they are a component in the process. It's...