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In this mode of play, isn't the character detail often mechanical rather than significantly fictional? I'm also not sure how important...

I would deny that it is a diegetic mechanic, because I deny that any mechanic is diegetic. That said, the Cortex mechanics explicitly...

Hang on though. IN order to have a "highly detailed situation", you would need to do lots of preparation, no? I've been told...

The mechanics in and of themselves don't actually need to be diegetic in order to produce a diegetic result. Most of what goes into a...

I'm not sure what you mean by "association" here: the MHRP example of the reading of the runes is a mechanic that is associated with...

I've taken their claims that it is not simulationist - and related descriptions like "quantum runes" - to be more than just first person...

To avoid possible misapprehensions, I think we're debating what it is to be "diegetic" and not "diegesis". Those terms cover different...

You said that authorship is "when they change the imagined world other than from within it" - and so I assumed that descriptions of...

I dunno. But there seem to be multiple posters in this thread who think that the player having the capacity to be the one who...

I'm not sure how this relates to failure. Nor do I see how this shows that the d20 roll is a representation of anything.

What process?

Which RPG are you talking about? With the climb rules for 5e D&D (based on a STR (Athletics) check) how do we see the character...

There are no trucks without the sun. But the sun is not a part of any truck - it is 10s of millions of kilometres away from all of them...

Unrelated - isn't gunpowder in Greyhawk verging on heresy? (Unless you're Murlynd!)

Nor are many of the words that the players speak, like "I [as my PC] turn around." No in the fiction hears those words spoken. As I...