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The thing with this is that it skirts the issue - which is: was modelling the real chances of someone being able to successfully do...

But what is the simulation? I don't see how you are describing a simulation as opposed to just a RPG.

Ahh. This would explain why you failed to understand the blog. That is not the definition of diegetic. Or, rather, that's only half...

A person reading runes is also diegetic, it occurs within the world of the narrative. So now my episode with the strange runes is diegetic!

I suggest you learn what diegetic means. After all, for something to be diegetic, it must exist both in the real world and in the...

Yeah, we went over so many iterations that could easily get the cook and door scenario to work. What I’ve learned is that if someone...

Except that the actual argument is that there is no difference between the implied servants existing in-potentia, and a random encounter...

So, it's nonsensical for anyone or anything to be on the other side of a door? Established how? By whom? Since, presumably, the PC's...

Ahh, this nails down the issue here. I am in no way making any sort of qualitative judgement about better or worse. I'm not. I'm in...

What I mean by that is that the GM is establishing the bulk of the fiction: the setting, the situation, the consequences of action...

Well, in a few of my games they do, but I’m consciously experimenting with some specific simulationist techniques.

The only bad choices are the ones that create degenerate fiction. If you’re outside the classic/trad paradigm, then you’re not really...

Oh, I didn’t take offense. I don’t get offended by what’s said on these boards. That doesn’t mean I don’t notice when someone posts...

"You're welcome to run a ridiculous game where ridiculous things happen" is not "live and let live"

Especially because the claim that failure means less noise assumes that (for instance) failure can't include things like making a noise...