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What does "sneaking up" actually mean? How are the shadows, the distracting noises, etc established? I mean, think about a children's...

Your conclusion leaves me, again, uncertain as to what is ruled out in RPGing by this principle. I know you offered some candidates...

I think it's the character's ability rating that evaluates their ability to do something. I'm not quite sure what you see the roll of...

But there's always background noise - dripping water, the breathing of the hirelings, the clank of the paladin's armour, whatever it is...

@The Firebird Scene framing is another one of those terms that could use some work. The GM is not framing discrete scenes that then run...

I don't really know how you're using "metaphysical". I'm talking about things like whether the fiction is established or implicit...

This doesn't change the point that the throwing of the punch is an INUS condition: an insufficient but necessary component of an...

In the AW example, the roll is to Act Under Fire. The modifier is cool, as in "cool under fire, rational, clearthinking, calm...

In my view, "If we roll to populate a hex the players just entered" then it is obvious that "everything is being made up for the PCs."...

You don't think that one way to test if a character gets lucky is by rolling dice? But they are fixed if it is subsequent to, rather...

I'll not speak for @Hussar here, but I think the point here is that there are many circumstances whereby, in D&D (let's use 3.5 for...

We could even say - it's uncertain whether or not an intruder will be sprung by a cook in the kitchen - so we roll dice . . .

Right. Because instead a roll is used: a roll that does not take fiction - imagined facts about what the PCs are doing, what they are...

I mean all the stuff in this quote.

Ok, “has a distinct and separate mode inclusive of initiative where you’re expected to resolve the conflict/encounter fully within the...