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False Equivalence #1: In my example the initial status is undefined. In yours it's defined as a living orc. False Equivalence #2: In my example a successful roll moves undefined to defined in favor of the PC. In yours it is defined(alive) to defined(dead). False equivalence #3: In my example a...

False equivalences still remain false. The shadowy figure in the doorway is undefined. The PC hopes it's an orc and is successful, so it's an orc. Or... The PC hopes it's an orc and is unsuccessful, so it's a drow. If you're going to try and be a smartass about it, at least get it right. ;)

It is established, because it's done in the game. All that practicing and experimentation with spells happens in game play. We just don't connect it to the new spells when they gain levels, because it's not the most exciting play out there.

The speed of medical advances these days means we can't rule it out.

Don't sell yourself short, I'm sure we could have at least a few more posts that repeat the exact same thing over and over.

Hmm. Given that it's 40 years from now, it's entirely possible I may stop posting before that date. :P

Only because it didn't matter. If it mattered, like the roll for the runes, he'd have known ahead of the character that hoped to find out halfway through the book, and that character's hope wouldn't have mattered at all with affecting who killed the chauffeur. I never once said that. He was...

This guy hopes the runes say what he wants them to say. He rolls and is successful, so they say what he wanted them to say. Or... This guy hopes the runes say what he wants them to say. He rolls and fails, so they say something other than what he wanted them to say. How is a hope roll...

Even more than that, we all optimize. Optimization isn't limited to mechanically better/best. If someone is focused on character and roleplay over combat, and they choose feats that aren't great mechanically, but which meet/enhance their vision of that character, they've optimized for their...

To the ones who we are talking about, the ones who are interested in Dark Sun because it's post-apocalyptic and they can fight slavery and tyrants, they will stay on the right side of the moral line. What other tables do doesn't matter. Why is that more obvious than the group trying to free...

So you don't think that the player hoped the runes would say what he was rolling for?

The timing man. They couldn't have said anything in the fiction, because what they said was determined by the roll initiated by the player when his PC read the runes right then. In that moment in the fiction those runes were not fixed and could have said two different things, depending on the...

I don't know that you can make that conclusion. Post apocalyptic media is very popular with young folks these days, so a post apocalyptic setting with slaves to be freed and tyrants to be overthrown might very well appeal to them.

This is a dodge. If the player didn't hope those runes said what he wanted them to say, he wouldn't have defined them that way for the check.

The quantum runes said nothing at all. A successful check and they said what the player hoped for. A failed check and the DM made up something different. Until the roll, though, they said nothing at all, so defining them changed their state.

Lots of in-fiction lore has no mechanic and no need for one. No in-fiction mechanic should be without lore.

The very first rule my group got rid of. We had decided to play the first 5e campaign by the books with no rule changes. Within the first few sessions there was a fight and someone wanted to know how to knock someone out. When we read that rule all of us were like, no way in hell would you be...

D&D is plenty granular for what I look for out of a game. I do tweak some things to make them a bit more realistic, or just to make sense. What I love about D&D, though, is that the gamist/narrativist/simulationist portions are about even. It doesn't do any playstyle fantastically, but does...

That is incorrect. The farrier existed because it should exist in a town like that and I just forgot it, not because the player hoped it would. The player may also have hoped it would, but it wasn't the hope that put the farrier there.

That still doesn't make sense to me. If a game doesn't simulate something to the degree I want, I don't gain a greater appreciation or understanding of that something if I alter it to be closer to what it is that I want. It's just closer to what I want.