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No, the character is not experiencing both. The character explicitly does not experience non-diegetic things. Saying they do makes the...

I think you were right the first time!

I'm not super-committed to the idea, but it did seem kind of analogous to diegetic sound -- diegetic sound is heard by the audience...

I want to say - tentatively, perhaps - that the analogue of this in a RPG would be the GM drawing a sketch of what the PCs can see. Or...

Right, it's mostly used for sound, but it can be applied to other aspects of film, too (I think it's most useful for sound). I think...

Exactly. They take a scene we know could happen, and give us a way of removing ambiguity without merely declaring what happens...

Let me rephrase. Made diegetic in a way that simulationist players would accept. I had taken it as given that, since this conversation...

My own view - which is based on both aesthetic preference and what I've experienced in RPG play - is that character-focused play becomes...

If it can be simulationist for Wolverine's player to declare I met this person in the past, why can't it be simulationist for a...

How do you mean? Are you observing that the screen image is incidental to what is diegetic? It's simply the means by which the audience...

The camera is non-diegetic, right? As is the movie screen, the projector, and the auditorium. What is diegetic is that which the actors...

The authorship of the novel is an event that happens in the real world, and is undertaken by the author. But the story - unless it...

I think DL shows the strengths of an integration between scenario and PCs. Doing it DL style, with the same person authoring both...

I'm not really clear on simulating a world independent of the players. If the 4th wall is not being broken, then necessarily the...

Depends on the game. In modern D&D, absolutely. But I think even some of the earliest more story focused play might have stumbled into...