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I know why it matters to you: you're playing a game where a principal goal is for the players to (i) learn what obstacles/challenges has...

In the fiction, what caused the Orc to not dodge the attack? What caused the Orc's footwork to be anticipated by the attacking PC? All...

The Cunning Expert conjecturing what the runes say is abstracted. It isn't disconnected from the in-universe fiction - namely, that this...

What's more interesting to me is the hoops that people will jump through to try and argue that a player affecting the direction of the...

Obviously. Einstein being more likely than me to be right isn't because he causes the world to be as he thinks it is, but because he...

What do you mean by "already established"? I mean, of course the Cunning Expert is basing their conjecture on the things they know and...

It cannot be all of those things simultaneously. Several of them are mutually-exclusive events. Which is completely meaningless, a...

I think I've explained it in excruciating detail. In the play of the game, the player is aware of the scene distinction Strange Runes...

But what does "skilled enough" MEAN? With climbing, were you too physically weak to pull yourself up, so you fell off? Did you grip...

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...