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That your complaint, as best I can tell, is simply that the player rather than the GM established some fiction. How is it free? And what...

How does you thief climb to the top of the wall? Or your fighter beat the Orc? All you can point to is that they are skilled thief or a...

This is a point I've been making on these boards for years now.

There is no divergence. The character wants to read the runes, having conjectured that they may reveal a way out, and hoping that they...

Just to clarify, I don't see my example as something to like or dislike. Rather it poses a question: what in the core D&D game text...

And? An 8th level fighter is able to beat Orcs because they're a good fighter. And they're a good fighter because they're a good...

"Justified by the fiction" here just seems to mean "authored by the GM" or "following more-or-less directly from something authored by...

I am using the terms in the only sense I'm familiar with: In Actor stance, a person determines a character's decisions and actions...

Your post just upthread of this one, together with the rest of this post, strongly imply that this is exactly the issue: I mean, you...

Suppose we take this approach. Then there is absolutely nothing "non-diegetic" about the runes case, or the startled cook, or anything...

It illustrates that your objections aren't based on the way these rules systems actually work. They're internal, not imposed by the...

My sense is that this sort of thing would be reasonably uncommon in 5e D&D play. Whether or not it breaks any rules is something for...

I've been wondering if one can arrive at the same result using D&D mechanics. Here is some relevant text 1. The Dungeon Master...

I don't think this is a very accurate description of how resolution in 4e D&D works. And I don't think it's accurate for combat in any...

Because it's a dungeon. With Strange Runes on a wall. And the player, as their PC, is conjecturing their meaning. All of that suggests...