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Lots of players like railroads. Lots of Gms like running them. Lots of those same people pretend that's not what's happening, by calling...

Why is there no evidence? I mean, do you assume that your 8th level D&D fighter wins bouts against Orcs without moving their feet...

All "not locked in" means here is not yet established as part of the shared fiction. It's obvious that there is something or other that...

Sorry, going to break my answer into two parts because I have two different answers for you @Faolyn. The more personal answer is that I...

So, essentially, simulation is just an illusion? So long as the DM maintains the illusion of simulation, and the players don't question...

But that wasn’t what was said. Location and the like. Not full context, but enough to make an educated guess. But either way… experts...

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...