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The widespread view in this thread appears to be that, of necessity, those episodes of play could not be or involve simulationism...

I don't think this is correct. If the music is diegetic and is (say) coming from an instrument, then the characters (like the audience)...

I think these are distinctions without a difference. Here are some definitions (Oxford Languages via Google), which show that ordinary...

Which ones? When I Google "diegetic definition", I get Oxford Languages telling me: (of sound in a film, television programme, etc.)...

Interesting - is that the standard view among critics? My thinking was that, for the audience, there is a sound (the voice). But in the...

Please stop nit picking. It's incredibly frustrating. Note, the "climb halfway rules" (which I honestly had forgotten) aren't really...

No. "Diegetic" does not just mean "depicted event". It is about the interplay between what is real and what is imagined. I'm not a very...

When the player had a hope for the runes, that was the player playing their character. So that hope is actually diegetic in the sense of...

So after a few dozen pages of people talking about the primacy of the setting and the role of the GM as the near-sole contributor of the...

I actually referred to faerie gold, taken from the dark elves in my MHRP game. MHRP doesn't rate treasure in the same way that D&D does...

Right. AD&D, up to and including UA, is really pretty thin on resolution mechanics despite its many many pages. There are thief...

I have taken that to be a premise of the exercise that you and @clearstream are engaged in, of discussing what makes RPG play...

The character in the fiction did interpret the runes: they studied them, and worked out what they said. At the table it's true that the...

I mean, we can assume every game (outside of some sci-fi and extraplanar settings) has weather happening as a background assumption.

And yet, even in AD&D, drow were never kill on sight. That's something that has been added. After all, drow have been playable in AD&D...