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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 8064379" data-attributes="member: 7025508"><p>I don't think that it is terribly unusual to have historical settings. And no, this is not an issue for me in practice, as any sensible player would understand that their ancient Egyptian doesn't know how to make gunpoweder and thus would never attempt it.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Nothing you say here makes any sense. In your paradigm GM cannot deny actions that are physically possible such as mixing these ingredients. And only in your paradigm whether the GM knows the formula matter because in mine we won't ever get that far.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Because knowledge is part of the fictional reality. And funny thing about 'you don't know it's an orc.' I have literally played this exact thing. I were playing in a campaign where the setting was such that at least initially it seemed that the humans were the only sapient species that existed. Early on we learned about existence of demons. But at one point we encountered these tusked green creatures. They didn't speak our language and we never learned what they were called. So never in-character did we call them orcs, because the characters obviously couldn't have known that.</p><p></p><p>Your category error is this arbitrary distinction between physical and mental. Both can be just information about the fictional reality. Your character can't reach that' and 'your character don't know that' are not fundamentally different types of statements, they both clarify to the player the reality in which the character exists.</p><p></p><p>Majority of tabletop RPGs follow my assumptions here. There are some though which give the players some meta-level control. In such games it is pretty much always explicitly spelled out and follows some defined mechanics.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crimson Longinus, post: 8064379, member: 7025508"] I don't think that it is terribly unusual to have historical settings. And no, this is not an issue for me in practice, as any sensible player would understand that their ancient Egyptian doesn't know how to make gunpoweder and thus would never attempt it. Nothing you say here makes any sense. In your paradigm GM cannot deny actions that are physically possible such as mixing these ingredients. And only in your paradigm whether the GM knows the formula matter because in mine we won't ever get that far. Because knowledge is part of the fictional reality. And funny thing about 'you don't know it's an orc.' I have literally played this exact thing. I were playing in a campaign where the setting was such that at least initially it seemed that the humans were the only sapient species that existed. Early on we learned about existence of demons. But at one point we encountered these tusked green creatures. They didn't speak our language and we never learned what they were called. So never in-character did we call them orcs, because the characters obviously couldn't have known that. Your category error is this arbitrary distinction between physical and mental. Both can be just information about the fictional reality. Your character can't reach that' and 'your character don't know that' are not fundamentally different types of statements, they both clarify to the player the reality in which the character exists. Majority of tabletop RPGs follow my assumptions here. There are some though which give the players some meta-level control. In such games it is pretty much always explicitly spelled out and follows some defined mechanics. [/QUOTE]
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