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What does reading the room entail? And I’d suggest to the extent the group wants the dm ‘reading the room’ is group dependent. Unless reading the room encompasses even those rooms that would prefer the GM to always stick with what was predetermined. But that would seem to undermine your point...

But not by the player! I’m not sure how that’s a counterexample? And here the player didn’t decide what if any argument would sway the Maruts. Which for what I’m talking about makes it completely dissimilar. The examples you choose for counters seem to reveal you don’t understand what is...

‘Runes cannot be read without first assigning them a meaning’. How did they get assigned a meaning? In this case the player selected a meaning, rolled some dice and got a successful result. That’s the part that’s non diegetic that doesn’t occur in d&d. In d&d the player isn’t selecting the...

Why is that not authoring? You consciously chose to think of a bar.

Sure. I’m not as particular on when it occurs. I think we have to be careful here. Immersive how? If immersive is ‘thinking as my character’ then authoring stuff is clearly something other than thinking as your character. In that sense it prevents it, but it doesn’t necessarily lessen the...

Sure. To me what you describe here is normal authoring. I think the act of authoring can be immersive. I think some can switch between authoring and thinking in character seamlessly. I’m not sure about the subconscious playing any part here. You consciously chose to author X facts about...

I also like oath of glory Paladin for you and focus on divine smites which also provide temp hp for staying power and damage.

For your party my ideal Paladin would be something like: Pike and Push Mastery. Defensive Style. Polearm Master Feat. Use shield of Faith primarily. Throw on divine favor as well for particularly long fights. Your party is probably low damage. You’ll need to focus on damage and defense as...

I think it’s clear by now that we are referring to the immersiveness of 2 different things.

So I don’t think the GM should have just told you what your character’s grievance was, though a potential suggestion shouldnt be a problem. Anything more is outside his authority. This is a case where the player and GM really need to collaborate together. I don’t think letting someone else...

Social contracts generally mean sometimes I have to do certain things I don’t really want to do so that I will be able to do the things I really want to do at other times.

But you don’t find it immersion breaking at all for you to just make up those details on the spot?

It’s clear D&D has some aspects of simulation. It’s clear some other games have more robust simulation at least in some areas. It’s also clear typical narrativist mechanics interfere with simulation. If I’m answering a Narrativist about why I prefer D&D to Narrativist games it’s due to the...

Star Trek gave an explanation. A Warp drive ;)

And this highlights the problem. You highlight a person calling his GM overall good with a single situation complained about as evidence of a bad GM. If that’s the criteria there are no good GMs.

I didn’t know you were a prophet ;)

I would push back a little here. I think at times for certain groups they certainly can and are, but even in those it’s not okay 100% of the time all the time. Maybe 1% of the time or something. I think maybe also the question of whether prep can be off piste. I notice sometimes prep is...

Do narrativist games simulate?

I’ve got a love hate relationship with them. Tactically they are fun, but I dislike them being tied to a particular weapon type.

It seems apparent to me this is just reframing the whole, ‘if it’s simulation it must be perfect argument’ into different words.