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How is the timespan longer? What time passes in the imagined world if a step in our resolution establishes something narrated to be ten...

See, I generally prefer more simulation that D&D offers, which is one reason why I play and enjoy Burning Wheel and Torchbearer 2e...

I don't mind inconsistency--when people aren't making demands or expecting something that everyone else must live with. When...

The script used by the builders of Moria is explicitly called runic in the text. The Book of Marzabul is written in at least two...

I think there's a distinction between "how you like your game" and what a good objective description of that game are. I don't have any...

The question makes assumptions about the place that I did not have in mind. That seems like a reasonable possibility for some imaginary...

And we pretend these falsehoods are true, for the time we pretend to spend in that world. Otherwise there would be no reason to suspend...

I think @pemerton's idea is that a "hit" on a roll could mean a hit with a weapon, but could also be read as a near miss that depletes...

Or the visitor was a long time ago and was writing in something readable for their time. Or the original builders put the map in place...

What swing? What damage? I mean, two 10th level fighters duel. They have (say) 90 hp each. The player of one rolls a successful hit...

Don't they? Then how do you explain Tomb of Horrors? Or if you want something more grounded: why wouldn't (say) a burial chamber have...

That our fictional worlds exist, that we have characters that inhabit them?

And this would be my contention. I think there's a degree of what I would call 'emulation' that necessarily happens in all play. That...

I made this same point upthread, in relation to Perception checks and surprise mechanics. The reason it doesn't get commented on is the...

Though I find that there are still times where even those for whom this gets "stuck in their craw" will do things that are retrocausal...