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All good questions.

I think that I am mostly in agreement. The only thing I don't really see is the importance of the in-game timescale. I added this...

Am I correct in interpreting that the "no initiative order" here specifically refers to initiative order in combat for RPGs with combat...

I mean the ontological character/properties of fictional entities, and the various relations that obtain between them.

To me - and with the caveat that I don't know Sorcerer all that well - this seems fairly similar to my Apocalypse World example upthread...

Entities operate at different granularities and this allows color to become situation whilst still being a resolution procedure rather...

I don't think it's just granularity. Because if players were expected to declare their actions at the level of detail that would...

The fiction always allows for several possible outcomes, as far as I can see. Eg the player has their PC sneak into a house via the...

I don't know what a "determinism strawman" is. But if the GM decides that the prior state of the fiction doesn't yield an outcome/event...

As I posted upthread, there is no requirement, in D&D, that a creature be invisible or camouflaged in order to surprise the PCs. It is...

This sort of example illustrates why I regard GM-prep-driven play, of this sort, as GM-driven. There are approaches to prep that differ...

In games that use "fail forward" adjudication, the roll is functionally related to the consequence that gets narrated: the whole point...

I think this line of inquiry is a dead end. Because it is impossible, in a RPG of the typical sort, which involves settings and...

OK - there are many posts being made, and I will concede that I may have not followed every sub-division of every topic. But the only...

But now you're agreeing with me - there is no in-fiction reason that has been established prior to the rolling of the dice.