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The entire presumption that "if you portray something evil in your work of creative fiction, and don't issue a disclaimer about how you...

I suppose I always got the black comedy/satire of the setting throughout my active play era, so I never saw what they were presenting as...

Which is the key difference, in your mind? If the DM ran a skill challenge but didn't tell them the mechanics, would that also reduce DM...

I don't think anyone is claiming real causality. The same holds for player action -- your declaration of attacking an orc does not cause...

Suppose the GM makes a ruling that clearly violates causality. What happens to the game? Ime it falls apart because the GM can no longer...

Why try to make it personal?

There is no causality in fiction. There is only the fiction of causality, which - of course - can be anything the author chooses which...

https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1331.html Nice reference from Thog.

Not every playstyle places primary emphasis on scene-framing.

Yes, there can be several causally possible outcomes. This doesn't mean there is no causality. And now you have found out what we have...

In other words, the fiction needs to conform to the rules of the challenge, making this a rules first rather than fiction first process...

Yes you have. Thus demonstrating that there is an expected causality between fictional things, and if you significantly deviate from it...

Perhaps, but some of them were suggested as possible contributors by the person who came up with the example. But why would the...

A man kicks a ball. The ball moves. There was no man, nor a ball, just text, but you might have imagined a man and a ball. And the...

My play typically consists of a world map. NPCs and factions are often linked to specific locations on the map. However, their location...