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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6372754" data-attributes="member: 42582">Well, if that's how you use the word &quot;situation&quot;. To me, &quot;fictional situation&quot; suggests a relatively high level description of what is going on, probably focused on what is at stake. &quot;Fictional positioning&quot; is deliberately intended to pick up more fine-grained elements of the situation that need not, in themselves, be contributing to the stakes.It's just a phrase. If you don't like it, no one's making you use it. But not using it won't make the issues in RPG play that it is used to talk about go away eg if the player of a rogue declares a use of Cunning Action to hide, who gets to decide whether or not there is enough cover? And how is that decision made?The fact that there are multiple active threads on this board discussing the hiding rules shows that setting these matters in the course of RPG play is not just a theoretical problem.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 6372754, member: 42582"] Well, if that's how you use the word "situation". To me, "fictional situation" suggests a relatively high level description of what is going on, probably focused on what is at stake. "Fictional positioning" is deliberately intended to pick up more fine-grained elements of the situation that need not, in themselves, be contributing to the stakes. It's just a phrase. If you don't like it, no one's making you use it. But not using it won't make the issues in RPG play that it is used to talk about go away eg if the player of a rogue declares a use of Cunning Action to hide, who gets to decide whether or not there is enough cover? And how is that decision made? The fact that there are multiple active threads on this board discussing the hiding rules shows that setting these matters in the course of RPG play is not just a theoretical problem. [/QUOTE]

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