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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7056790" data-attributes="member: 42582">As I've posted upthread in response to&nbsp; [MENTION=6785785]hawkeyefan[/MENTION] and some other poster (maybe&nbsp; [MENTION=29398]Lanefan[/MENTION]?), this seems to involve a category error.In the fiction, it is either true or false that the brother was evil. That truth doesn't change.At the table, that element of the shared fiction has to be be settled through some process or other - fictions don't just write themselves! At my table, it was settled by narrating the consequences of the failure. Up to that point, the relevant element of the ficiton hadn't been written, and so - not having been written - I was in no better position to know it than anyone else.You seem to be making the same category error, of confusing the truth within the fiction and the process of authoring the fiction.What colour were Frodo's socks on the evening of Bilbo's birthday party? No one knows, because JRRT didn't write anything about them.That doesn't mean that Frodo was wearing quantum socks.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 7056790, member: 42582"] As I've posted upthread in response to [MENTION=6785785]hawkeyefan[/MENTION] and some other poster (maybe [MENTION=29398]Lanefan[/MENTION]?), this seems to involve a category error. In the fiction, it is either true or false that the brother was evil. That truth doesn't change. At the table, that element of the shared fiction has to be be settled through some process or other - fictions don't just write themselves! At my table, it was settled by narrating the consequences of the failure. Up to that point, the relevant element of the ficiton hadn't been written, and so - not having been written - I was in no better position to know it than anyone else. You seem to be making the same category error, of confusing [I]the truth within the fiction[/I] and [I]the process of authoring the fiction[/I]. What colour were Frodo's socks on the evening of Bilbo's birthday party? No one knows, because JRRT didn't write anything about them. That doesn't mean that Frodo was wearing quantum socks. [/QUOTE]

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