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I don't follow. The declaration of actions, and their resolution, is something that happens in playing the game. It's not part of the...

I've posted, upthread, how Marvel Heroic RP works. It's not mysterious. Like, I don't ask you about the scene distinctions that you use...

The players already know how the resolution system works. They've played the game, they know the rules. It's not kept secret from them.

As I already posted,

This seems to exclude some fairly common mechanics, like (in D&D) casting a spell be crossing it off your list of memorised spells, or...

I think we always have some things that are settled in the game world and some things that are not settled. One question that raises is...

Yes, but genres almost always contain things that are not diegetic to the world.

You speak about "D&D" as if it's a single thing. But it's not. Here is an example of D&D play, that I've already posted in this thread...

I have only the most niggling of disagreements with your otherwise neat formulation. Process-simulation aims to mechanically represent...

This is one meaning of "simulation" in RPGing. It's not the only one: see eg @clearstream's posts in this thread. It's not the meaning...

I think this is an excellent point. How can something be diegetic in the game world if time runs backward? If the justification occurs...

I mean, it can: "I hope you bought me a bicycle for my birthday. Oh, you did? My wish came true!" The significance of "hope" is for...

That's good - thank you! Yeah, this is the sort of thing I have in mind in talking about how demanding Sorensen's principles are...

I love this. I particularly love this because there are plenty of things that happen in "process" sim play that are absolutely in the...

Elaborating on my point not far upthread, that inferences like If X is a disputed proposition of physics, and Einstein conjectured it to...