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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Balesir" data-source="post: 6802797" data-attributes="member: 27160">I think this may be a key concept/quote.In the "find out by playing the game" style, there IS (taken to be) an objective truth.It's just that nobody knows what it is except by playing the game.If you were roleplaying omniscient gods, you might find out the "objective truth" by making one roll; 1-3 = the brother was innocent, 4-6 = the brother was evil before he was possessed.But we are generally roleplaying characters who are closer to "normal folks", and normal folks (such as scientists in the real world) are not able to ask whatever questions they like. They must carefully parse questions to ask of reality such that they can get an answer that might reveal hints at the ultimate "objective truth" behind the mask of the game universe. Really clever questions might come up with a working theory, but just like Newton's wonderful schema in the real world, the theory is always and forever susceptible to being shown to be not quite right...</blockquote>