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You've repeatedly stated your definition but have never provided any reference to an external source that supports your definition.

Have you ever played billiards? You know, hit the white ball with a cue trying to hit another ball into a pocket, called pool in the US? I play now and then and even though I'm not as good as I used to be I'm reasonably proficient. There are a lot of things you can do to improve your skill...

Why would I be unhappy that there is a problem if I use a definition that you, and you alone, use? Unless, once again, you can show anywhere at all that the definition is more widely spread.

I don't accept your reasoning because if I did then no TTRPG I can imagine could be considered simulationist and the word has no meaning.

If I show a picture of an NPC to the players it is just a mechanism used to convey information to the players instead of just a verbal description. It has nothing to do with the ongoing narrative within the fiction other than to give the players a more precise picture.

As Sorensen says "When the dragon reaches 0 HP and dies, it does not die because it reached 0 HP: it dies because it has suffered so much damage it cannot endure further. Your game’s abstractions are representative, not authoritative."

I don't consider the camera diegetic or non-diegetic because it is not concerned with the story being told in any meaningful sense. It's the mechanism and part of the medium used to tell the story, it is unrelated to the fiction of the story. The camera is not part of the narrative, it...

I don't see why it wouldn't be simulationist. Someone always has to author details about the fictional world, if they didn't it wouldn't be anything to simulate. Level of detail is nice with a printed map but there's nothing non-diegetic about it, the map existed in the fiction, the characters...

So according to you, the guy who wrote a manifesto on what simulationism is has restrictions so strict that any game that claims to be simulationist can't actually be simulationist? No GM can pre-establish every cobweb, every blade of grass. Every game only exists because there are players who...

You keep repeating the same argument but have yet to provide one external source to support your definition. It's wasn't convincing hundreds of pages ago it's not convincing now.

Adding fluff and detail does not change the essence of the fiction. No author of any book ever fills in exactly every detail. No plans can include everything possible. That doesn't mean that there are no cobwebs in an old ruin, it just means there is no mall kiosk inside my house showing where...

I'm a weird outlier then, most of the campaigns I run or played that my wife runs go to 20th. I've had a couple that didn't for various reasons but I think this is kind of similar to how most accidents occur within 10 miles of home. Those accidents don't occur because it's more dangerous, it's...

Just because this thread doesn't have enough tangents, I've kind of cycled through multiple explanations for why there is not gunpowder. It hasn't ever come up as anything I need to explain in game because there's no reason for a character to ask about something that doesn't exist that they...

That's unfortunate. I was always a popular DM when running public games because people knew it wouldn't be a cakewalk. Some of my most memorable games had almost everyone in the party unconscious at one point or another. It's not like death is permanent in those games, unless it's changed...

Anything that happens in the fiction and is only in the fiction is diegetic. If the minor character exists in the fiction they are diegetic. Correct, the voice of the omnipotent narrator "They did not know what was to come..." or the Jaws theme music is not diegetic because it doesn't exist...

If you're using the 2014 rules, it's in Chapter 9: Combat - Damage and Healing - Damage Resistance and Vulnerability "Multiple instances of resistance or vulnerability that affect the same damage type count as only one instance. For example, if a creature has resistance to fire damage as well...

But then that would mean that diegetic has no meaning because in any fiction, there is an author of the fiction. Probably no simulations either because the only thing that would be considered diegetic would be the real thing. If you have to define things down to that level to prove your point...

The character in the fiction had no way of knowing what the runes would say before they interpreted them. The odds of the runes being what they hoped for were a million to one. Because they rolled well (with odds far less than a million to one) it was indeed, directions on a way out. The...

Wait ... rolling a percentile dice is diegetic but rolling a D20 is not?

Diegetic music: the characters in the film an also hear it. So? The character falling off the cliff also knows they're falling. Show me one definition, one explanation, one blog post, anything at all anywhere other than your repeated statements that support your addition. Just one...