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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yesway Jose" data-source="post: 5617701" data-attributes="member: 6679265">But Frodo *could* describe Bag End to us, of course not to us directly, but indirectly to the reader (say, via a short story about Frodo and Gandalf), thus communicating to us what Bag End is like in a believable way. Conversely, a Diablo avatar in the Diablo game could not communicate to us (say, as part of a conversation tree with an NPC avatar) why he's unable to jump over the boulders at the edge of the map (unless it's some sort of self-referential parody). While no one D&D edition is perfect, a 4E wizard would have great difficulty describing in-game why his Essentials Hypnotism spell can only seize control of people's minds to either attack somebody or move and nothing else whatsoever.</blockquote>