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Ahh, we're back to everything is simulation. I mean if asking the DM, outside of the game, a series of questions to create content for...

It's the hope arrived by a Solitary Traveller who is a Cunning Expert. His hopes are likely to be accurate - it's not a punt in the...

I think the sort of thing you describe - whether generated via the Oracle or via the GM's imagination - is one of the things that...

Let me try this from a different direction. In Ironsworn (sorry to bring this up again, but, it fits my example well and ... well... I...

No. They are not. Because if the climb mechanics are bound within the act of climbing, then the climb mechanics would provide some...

Isn't it just an abstraction/simplification? As in, all locks and traps are about the same in their mechanical complexity. The AD&D DMG...

I'm assuming the map that you printed is meant to be the same as the map that exists in the game world. It doesn't have any information...

Schroedinger's treasure! Sorensen addresses this, in part at least, in principle 3: If the GM is also author, designer, and creator of...

But once you introduce "affect" you are brining in something more than mere "diegesis". You are bringing in the Sorensen point about change.

It's not just about degenerate results. It's about audience response. Contrast the following two scenes: In a Superman movie, a baddie...

Now the strange runes episode turns out to involve "diegetic mechanics": the mechanic simulates a diegetic event, namely, the making of...

Right. The events of writing the story aren't part of the story; nor is being a member of the audience part of the story. That's all. I...

Some mechanical elements are, or at least are intended to be, representational: eg D&D stats; Burning Wheel skill ratings; and the like...

Maybe you could think about the game mechanics as like the film mechanisms... the projector, say? No projector, no film. That doesn't...

I don't find her arguments completely compelling, but I don't think that's her intention. She's arguing that the numerical...