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Of course -- I'm not saying it's novel tech. I'm just saying that it's a specific thing for Cortex, and, without knowing how people...

Scene Distinctions are a mechanical feature of Cortex. They're Traits that belong to the Scene rather than characters -- often, they're...

Aren't they? Do you say this based on your own expert knowledge of runes in dungeons? Eg do you not think an archaeologist might be...

Sorry, but, I don't find, "Make anything up after the fact" to be a particularly useful definition of simulation. 🤷

But that wasn't my post, was it? So I don't see how it relates to my RPGing.

Ok, you want dueling quotes? Fair enough. Page 10 2024 PHB: Note, at no point is the d20 roll actually defined. At no point does...

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...