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I don't suspend any disbelief when I play, though. I know I'm pretending to be and encounter pretend things in a pretend land...

Sure, but in Moria it was written in dwarvish, not some obscure runes that would take a history or arcana check to decipher. While...

This comes across as either "whataboutism" or a simple failure to realize that humans aren't 100% consistent. I, personally, have no...

That happened to my wife some time back. Both of us very much dislike asparagus. At an executive luncheon a few years ago the...

I rather think there's a bit of a difference between writing the password down on an easy to use post-it note and sticking it to your...

We might break this down in a more clear way. For the orc in a fight - all the abstracted events (dodging, footwork, and so on) that...

Yes. What is not the same is the causality. Why you keep ignoring this? I absolutely do not understand why you always champion...

I think @pemerton's idea is that a "hit" on a roll could mean a hit with a weapon, but could also be read as a near miss that depletes...

This misperception is why so many traditional DMs argue with you. What we do isn't even close to being one person telling a story, or...

There's no falsehood there. We are pretending to be pretend elves(or whatever race) in a pretend world. That's all true. It's all...

how is hitting the creature with your swing and doing damage not succeeding at the task of hitting the creature with your weapon to deal...

If a rune expert was conjecturing that runes on a dungeon wall were directions out, I'd ask for his expert credentials back. Dungeon...

That's not the issue. I think @Enrahim just explained it better. It feels like the player was allowed to cheat, the runes being...

Who inscribes runes to show directions to the way out? If the creators are still there, they'd just tell you to take the east...

I am not sure whether that is exactly what simulationism means to many here but for me the player only interacting with the world...