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Except it absolutely is not. You can absolutely imagine that. A bazillion times, even. The one and ONLY thing the dice tell you is...

I'm not sure how your author/actor/audience distinctions relate to diegesis. For instance, a player pretends to be a person in the...

I didn't miss it. I have read that, and the Wikipedia page that I linked to not far upthread, and also things like the following, from...

Examples would help here, because I'm not sure if the things you're thinking of are the things I'm thinking of; but I don't think I...

Thanks! To build on it: is the use of the reaction roll to establish backstory seen as a concession to playability, or a good/creative...

Now that is a good example.

This doesn't conform to Sorensen's principle 3, though. Which was my point. The offscreen is, by definition, not part of the diegesis...

What do you mean by "running a simulation"? When Gygax wrote the Greyhawk Gazetteer, or Tomb of Horrors, he wasn't running a simulation...

Yet what? The watcher isn't an element of the diegesis. (Unless the film breaks the fourth wall - like in the credits of School of...

But once they are established, there is then a chance to dodge. We work out the first set of things by rolling the chance to throw on...

I'm not sure what you mean by "giving meaning in a non-authorial ways". I'm also not sure what you mean by "fictional meanings". Is...

According to Wikipedia, Diegesis (Greek διήγησις "narration") and mimesis (Greek μίμησις "imitation") have been contrasted since...

Two thoughts -- This first may be a quibble, but the fictional world is not diegetic -- it is the diegesis. Things strictly within...

What was being simulated was exploration of a weird dungeon, looking for answers to omens and portents. I don't see how talking about...

The mechanic is not a part of the fiction, and so by definition cannot be diegetic. More generally, if X represents Y, and Y is part of...